Mozilla's Year In Review For 2003

An anonymous reader writes "Like last year, MozillaZine has published a review of Mozilla's world in 2003. Obviously, the year was dominated by AOL's decision to murder Netscape (though various acts of 'brand necrophilia' will ensure that the Netscape name lives on in one form or another). This, combined with Mozilla Firebird's and Mozilla Thunderbird's steady progress towards replacing the Mozilla suite, made 2003 very much a transitional year for the open source project. Other memories to tell your grandchildren include mozilla.org's fifth birthday, the new roadmap, the Firebird name debate and a new chapter being added to The Book of Mozilla."

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Re:Mozilla and /. (slightly OT)

[t0ny]

If I can't use my bank account with my standards compliant browser, I give a damn if the page renders perfectly in some browser that other people use. Can you afford the risk to lose 10% of your customers? Maybe would be cheaper, maybe not.

Depending on your source, the amount of potential customers lost can be far less than 10% (more like 6% tops). Also, the target audience for a bank isnt some computer geek who uses linux and doesnt use a shower. Its some yuppie who gets his shit from Dell and drives a BMW, and couldnt give two shits about Linux, unless he works for IBM, in which case he only cares about it enought to laugh at all the suckers giving him their work for free.

The majority of people dont seek to define themselves through their choice in web browsers.

I simply don't want this choice to be taken away from me, because I think this would hamper the technological evolution of the web.

Get a grip. Its just a means of displaying information on a page, its not a revolution in free thinking.