Mozilla's Major New Roadmap

kerz writes "mozilla.org today released a new version of it's famed roadmap, this time with some pretty major changes. First and foremost, they plan on ditching the large Mozilla suite in favor of Phoenix and Minotaur. Secondly, they have plans to change the milestone cycle to allow for more time to fix the Gecko layout engine to be smaller and more efficient. MozillaZine has the scoop..."

Comments

A day late

[jd142]

Good thing this was posted on April 2.

Re:A day late

[jdavidb]

Right. And what a shame I wasted all my mod points yesterday.

Mozilla??

[FortKnox]

What's this 'Mozilla' everyone is talking about?

Re:Mozilla??

[Ledskof]

Some kind of Japanese Web Browser that manages to trample all over other processes on a Microsoft Windows machine.

Re:Mozilla??

[prator]

It's like IE, but with tabbed browsing and without wormholes.

There are wormholes in IE? Can I use these to go between work and home faster? Wow, this will really increase my productivity. I can use that extra 1 1/2 hours each day playing the new Zelda.

-prator

Re:Mozilla??

[stefanlasiewski]

Can I use these to go between work and home faster?

Sadly, in most corporate environments, all wormholes only lead to the boss's office... or to the marketing department meeting.

Re:Mozilla??

[Anonymous Coward]

There are wormholes in IE? Can I use these to go between work and home faster?

Yes, using the wormholes in IE you can run proigrams on your work computer while you're at home. It works just like SSH without that pesky authentication junk!

Re:Mozilla??

[RandomCoil]

Sadly, in most corporate environments, all wormholes only lead to the boss's office... or to the marketing department meeting.

Nah, those are black holes.

RC

Re:browser bloat

[guacamolefoo]

it is about time they cut down the size of the package.

Some people like a big package.

GF.

wow

[Enrico Pulatzo]

I was wondering how they would justify taking 5 years before reaching 2.0. Now we know :)

Seriously though, good idea. I'd love to see the whole Mozilla project turned into a Gecko app and everything else be plugins! Now that'd be cool!

Re:here ya go

[Dolly_Llama]

6. ???

7. Profit!

Ok, I admit to adding 6 and 7.

As digitally altering media contravenes the stated principles of this medium, the above poster has been sacked...

Re:Makes Sense

[gspira]

I just wish they'd also separate out Mozilla Composer and make the basic no frills standalone HTML editor the world needs.

Like Notepad?

How to start a Mozilla spinoff project

[Laplace]

Step 1: Proclaim that Mozilla is a bloated mess.
Step 2: Find a name.
Step 3: Reach the 0.5 release, and develop a loyal following.
Step 4: Start to reach more users and get some name recognition.
Step 5: Come up with some sort of roadmap.
Step 6: Change the name due to legal issues.
Step 7: Declare 1.0 victory, and add yourself to the junkheap of other spinoff projects. Don't worry, though, there are more to join!

Re:browser bloat

[Eccles]

Some people like a big package.

Sometimes you want big, but sometimes you want small if you're going to do something different with it, you know, like put it somewhere that can't take something big. What I'd really like is a selectable package size.

Umm, we are still talking about Mozilla, right?

Re:Makes Sense

[TKinias]

scripsit gspira:

I just wish they'd also separate out Mozilla Composer and make the basic no frills standalone HTML editor the world needs.

Like Notepad?

:%s/Notepad/Gvim/g
:wq

Re:Makes Sense

[sig cop]

. On behalf of MacOS and *n?x users everywhere, I'd like to say, "What?"

Tenex users? annex users? Lennox users? Knox users? equinox users? Tektronix users? phoenix users? onyx users?

Who are these users you glob of?

Re:Makes Sense

[SomeGuyFromCA]

You mean "cat > index.html"

Re:browser bloat

[Eccles]

That formula certainly never gets old.

"Three's Company" lasted seven years on that formula...