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Mozilla Branches For 1.0 RC1

Posted by timothy on from the frustrate-your-modem dept.

At the end of last month, the Mozilla Project closed the tree for what will become Mozilla 1.0. Now jkeiser writes "Mozilla has branched for 1.0 RC1, which is the first last step to a final Mozilla 1.0! Mozilla has spent four long years getting the browser standards-compliant, fast and solid. Cross your fingers for a rockin' final release around the corner." Reader whovian points to the just-modified roadmap, too.

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  1. Mozilla 1.0 a.k.a 0.9999999... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    See subject. Please don't contest that 1 = 0.9999999... this has been hashed out a thousand times on the sci.math newsgroup. Go find a FAQ.

    1. Re:Mozilla 1.0 a.k.a 0.9999999... by Neil+Blender · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, that really depends on your processor.

    2. Re:Mozilla 1.0 a.k.a 0.9999999... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Go see sci.engr, there they will tell 1=0.999999... :-) ("close enough dammit", or "within experimental error").

  2. It figures.... by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 5, Funny
    I was shocked when I heard their plans to go from 0.9.9 straight to 1.0. Such a bold numerical jump! Now I see what they had up their sleeve: RC-releases! I think to keep up the humor, they should have called it .9.9.9, with RC2 being .9.9.9.1 and so on. That way, it would really convey the sense that they're close to 1.0!

    Alternately, they could declare that 1.0 is an asymptotic limit for Mozilla, and no actual human coded Mozilla will ever reach it, though future versions will come closer.

    1. Re:It figures.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      I can predict the next few mozilla related headlines:

      Mozilla 1.0 About to Be Released - Developer spotted typing up the release announcement

      Final Mozilla 1.0 Tarballs being compiled - stdio.h will be included

      Mozilla 1.0 On Its Way - Electrons respresenting the 1.0 tarball have left the build server and are on their way to the ftp server. Expected to arrive soon.

      Mozilla 1.0 Released? -There is no announcement but some warez d00ds claim to have already downloaded it.

      1.0 will be here soon enough. How many stories about it do we need?

    2. Re:It figures.... by DAV3 · · Score: 3, Funny
      Knuth did the asymptote thing with Tex and Metafont.

      Metafont is asymptoting to e (2.7182 at the moment)

      TeX is ampytoting to pi (3.14159)

    3. Re:It figures.... by mattbelcher · · Score: 2, Funny

      My next software project is going to asymptote to i.

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  3. Great by Judecca · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now we can finally integrate it into the kernel!

    Then the Opera Vs Netscape trials start, and life begins anew.

  4. obligitory view-source comment by farnsworth · · Score: 2, Funny
    I can't use mozilla to develop web applications because view-source is broken...

    55583

    oh wait... it's fixed.

    nevermind.

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  5. So close! by quantaman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Arrgh! I can't stand the wait! We hit 0.9.9 and I thought, "GREAT! Next time I see Mozilla on /. it will be 1.0!!!!!!". Several Mozilla stories later I see this 1.0 story! Branch closed... Does that mean it's ready? No Moz! Now another 1.0 story with no Mozilla!!
    I want my browser! STOP TORTURING US!!!!!

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  6. Multi Part Porn Messages by satanami69 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Their mail and newsgroups still do not download the multipart porno for the newsgroups. What's the point of having the a full browser if you can't download porno with it. Hopefully they'll have it solved by 1.0's release. I suppose you can use it with any newsgroup, but really, let's make sure we concentrate on it for the real reasons.

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  7. Cool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now by the time my current copy of Mozilla 0.9.9 starts up, 1.0 will be released.

  8. Re:I must admit that i didn't think it would happe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    And while they are a bit behind schedule. 4 years for a 1.0 doesn't sound bad when you realize that this is a .0 that means something, as opposed to most commercial vendors (and a lot of OS projects) that usually wait until 3.x to begin getting things right.
    Bah, that's nothing! I mean, one rather popular OS I know of got up to about 98 until they decided to rewrite the whole thing from scratch again because it wasn't any good. This one eventually got usable around 2000!
  9. Just like sex by CAIMLAS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, I never thought I'd see the day!

    I remember when I first heard of Mozilla about 3 years ago - it was going to make the "browser war" non-existant becuase it was so much faster than Internet Explorer, and still had a lot of slimming down to do (oh, and it was already pretty small!) Never mind that at the time, it had hardly any features, was quite unstable, and such. It was a dream people had. It would be great!

    Now, the moment is almost upon us, and Mozilla is almost out in the wild. Several years ago I was quite excited, but now? Well, I'm happy, of course, but what's the big deal? It's nothing all that fantastic, other than that it's a competing (open source) product for IE. If it fit on a floppy and file my taxes (damn those taxes!), though - that's another story. :)

    I s'pose it's like sex - everyone says how great it is, and every teenage boy wants it. But then, when it's finally obtained or obtainable, it's just kind of, "Eh, it was ok, but not what I thought."

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  10. gonna look like crap... by skia · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm a big mozilla fan, but to be forking for 1.0 and still have no splash screen or icons? And this stuff isn't even themeable, so the usual suspects can't help us.

    This is the kind of stuff closed-source people are laughing at. Why can't the Moz team get this together??

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  11. Re:My list of showstopper bugs (OT) by big.ears · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is more than a bit ridiculous, since the bug was submitted September 2000.
    I was stunned and amazed when I read this sentence. I had to read it twice before I believed it! Someone actually spelled "ridiculous" correctly on slashdot! Its gotten so that it doesn't even look correct anymore. Nice work!