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The Mozilla Foundation
gemal writes "We're very pleased to announce the creation of the Mozilla Foundation, a non-profit organization that will serve as the new home for mozilla.org. The Mozilla Foundation will continue mozilla.org's work of coordinating the development of the Mozilla codebase. With an independent non-profit as the legal home for Mozilla, we will also promote the distribution and adoption of Mozilla applications and technologies. In addition, we will raise funds to ensure Mozilla's long-term survival." Update: 07/15 21:47 GMT by T : Yablo writes "MozillaZine is running a blurb about how since earlier today, when the Mozilla Foundation was created, AOL has laid off all the Gecko developers. Ex-mozilla.org has a list of the casualties."
On Mac, IE will be replaced by Safari. That's the default browser that everyone will use, since it comes bundled with the operating system, and is enabled by default. In addition, because it's made by Apple, serious Mac-tards won't touch anything else.
IE will dominate on Windows for as long as there is a Windows. It's built into the operating system, and comes enabled by default. Not even knowledgeable people want to download entirely new browsers.
The only place where Moz will be "king" is on the also-ran Linux and BSD platforms.
N4st0r, trixx0r h0bb1tz0rz! Th3y st0l3 0ur pr3c10uzz!
I was really liking the metal CD boxes they were sending out a while ago. It came with only 1 AOL CD inside, but it's big enough to hold 5 and keep them from getting scratched.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
I hate to say this, but I really preferred the old design better. It looks like this one was designed by committee, because there's just a complete lack of cohesion and theme -- not to mention gratuitous use of emphatic (<b>, for example) elements without much care for consistency. There seem to be two different color schemes vying for supremacy, that burnt yellow along with the gray and blue; and, of course, the markup doesn't bother validating (the CSS does, though.) None of the other pages on the new site (or any of the other Moz-family domains) changed either, so it's just as if someone mocked up a single page and then posted it to meet a deadline.
That all said -- I'm glad it got a facelift. I just really wish that the presentation was a bit better, because it doesn't seem like anyone spent any time really working on it.
got standards? --- http://www.w3.org/
Mozilla is not the best browser out there anyways. Opera is even better (faster, les memory usage, better support on some CSS stuff....)
You can't even hide a row of a table in DHTML. Actually, hiding works but you can't show it properly again... A ROW in a TABLE, dammit!!! That's basics!!
BTW, I'm interested to know if Mozilla will ever support VML... A very simple and lightweight way of drawing vectors/graphs/... that IE supports natively since IE5.
On this one I must say that IE is ahead of its competitors, and if the company I'm working for does only support IE that's for a very good reason.
Write boring code, not shiny code!