Interview with Camino Developer Mike Pinkerton

An anonymous reader writes "As someone who has used Camino for much of the time since the OS X-centric Gecko browser was released, I've been hoping to see it hit version 1.0 (it's at 0.8 now). ArsTechnica has an interview with Mike Pinkerton, the lead developer for Camino in which he talks about the history and future of Camino along with his thoughts on Safari and Firefox."

Comments

Firefox can be ugly on OS X

[singularity]

I used to use iCab for a long time, but then development (and speed) really fell behind. I started looking around for a replacement, and there was Firebird (or whatever Firefox was called back then), Camino (which I think had a different name, as well), and Safari.

Firefox is obviously not an OS X application. Sure, they have Gecko running really quickly, but non-native widgets? One of the big draws of OS X is the look and feel, and the consistency of the looks. Having what looks to be Windows-themed widgets for all forms drives me crazy.

Safari looks really good, renders most things perfectly, and is rather snappy.

Camino looked nice, but the feature set was just not there at all when I tried it. When I first tried it, the pref-pane was new to that version. Even now, the feature set is just not there to be used as a primary browser, I think.

I would really like to see Camino developed more.