Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 Released

KonijnenBunny writes "May 3rd sees the release of the 0.6 version of Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail and newsgroup client, featuring improved junk-mail controls and a new brand identity, including a new Firefox-style icon. I switched from some murky client which didn't exactly have a bright outlook regarding spam to Thunderbird a while back and was not dissapointed. Grab this latest version at Mozilla.org." Mac OS X users can also enjoy the new Pinstripe theme, which matches the previous theme of the same name applied to Firefox.

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Final change yet?

[Azghoul]

Will this be the last major change in the "branding" of thunderfoxbird?

All this talk by the mozilla people about "branding" makes me cry. I hear way too much of this from UE people at IBM... enough to drive a guy mad, I tell you...

(not to mention, how many times can you change the look and feel -- errrrrr branding, sorry -- of a product before people start looking elsewhere? Or get lost?

Is there hope for Mozilla?

[Accord MT]

If there is any hope for a standards-compliant World Wide Web, it lies in the website developers. Yes, that means you! Users are not going to witch to a standards-compiliant browser if they don't need to. Managers are not going to want to support standards if their users wont switch. And certainly Microsoft is not going to change IE. It's up to you, web developers: You have the
power to change things.

If you work on a for-profit site, make every reasonable attempt to resist your manager's urging to violate the standard in favor of IE. Do whatever you can get away with without being fired! At the very least, validate your HTML and test on standards-compliant browsers. Try to win your boss over away from the "we're a Microsoft Partner" way of thinking! Show him that everytime you violate the standard to appease IE, you are taking money out of your pocket and giving it to Microsoft, and are moving one step closer to a Microsoft-only Internet, complete with Microsoft-only viruses and trojans.

If you work on a not-for-profit website or if you're the boss, then you have no excuse. Don't make any consessions for IE. In fact, turn IE users away at the door. Put up some links for them to get with the program and download a standards-compliant browser. The more popular your site is, the more effective it will be if you refuse to serve IE. Microsoft wants an IE-only web, so lets give them a web that blacklists IE. As users start to ditch IE (and they will if they want to see your site), we'll see a snobwall-effect: More people will use standards-compliant browsers, and more sites will have to shape up and support them.

We can't wait for the users to suddenly switch to standards-compliant browsers. Likewise we can't wait for web site managers to get a clue. It's up to you, developers. You who are in the trenches every day, creating tomorrow's websites. You have the power to make the World Wide Web--and in effect, the entire Internet--standards compliant once again!

Re:Is there hope for Mozilla?

[Kosgrove]

Frankly, I don't care if anyone bothers to mod the parent down but that's a troll, you retards. If you sincerely think it's okay to undermine your boss' direction because of your political agenda against MS, maybe you should reconsider why you're unemployed and have so much time to moderate on Slashdot.

Not to mention that it's off-topic.

Props to Accord MT for writing something that was just believbale enough.

Re:Thunderbird

[stateofmind]

Flamebait?? WTF, lemme guess, because I'm using a Mircosoft product?

Sorry for expressing an opinon. I love Thunderbird, just stating why I'm not using it.

Josh