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SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha released
An anonymous reader writes "SeaMonkey 1.0 Alpha was released last week. Users of the Mozilla Suite or Netscape should check it out - it contains numerous new features and bugfixes when compared to Mozilla 1.7, but offers the same basic look and feel. There are a few screenshots on the SeaMonkey blog showing off some of the features. For those who don't know, SeaMonkey is the continuation of the Mozilla Suite after the Mozilla Foundation ceased shipping new releases."
Uh. It is a law, asshat. There's this thing called human interface design. First rule says IF IT LOOKS THE SAME, IT WORKS THE SAME.
So basically, you're saying that Mozilla is like emacs and Firefox/Thunderbird/etc. are like vi?
Dude.
i) That's still someone's opinion. You may choose to call that person a guru, but I don't.
Yeah OK. It's also just someone's opinion that it's wrong to litter and that it's wrong to steal and that it's wrong to set fire to a person's house and that it's wrong to cut people's throats. I mean i don't know if you want to consider these people gurus or anything....
ii) "If it looks the same it works the same" is not the same thing as "Everything interface should look the same". Ever wonder why a helicopter doesn't have a steering wheel?
Oh, you got me on that one. Because the difference between a car and a helicopter is clearly equivalent to the difference between two pieces of software running under the same environment on the same computer, not to mention, of course, that a helicopter works exactly the same as a car, so i mean, logically, it does follow that it should employ the same means of guidance (oh wait)
I don't even use a Mac, you fucking idiot, and i'm certainly not a 'fanboy'.
And i never made any assertions as to the functionality of Mozilla (aside from saying that it's slow to load up and it used up more RAM on a Mac than the classic OS itself did). Back when i did have a Mac (which was years ago), i was forced to use Mozilla because there was nothing better, and i used it almost exclusively.
So why don't you get off my back about it? I don't use Mozilla anymore, and i probably never will use it ever again, so this doesn't really affect me. Opera was pretty shitty as far as interface for a long time, but they finally got it mostly right (although their preferences window is kind of lame), so i'm content with that. But that fact, in addition to all the many nice things i'm sure you can say about Mozilla's functionality, don't at all change what i said.
So, you know, if you want to talk about babies, you can start with your debate tactics.
Gee, I thought Firefox was just the best of Mozilla, without all the extraneous crap? Why would you insist on continuing to use an older, out-of-date legacy software (whether it is called seamonkey or mozilla) when Firefox took the best out of that generation, streamlined it and made it into a browser people actually want?
If there is one downside to open source software is that legacy software will far outlive its popularity and usefullness simply because some people can't let go or want to learn something new. Instead of wasting efforts on old deprecated software, contribute your skills to making Firefox (or any new generation software) better or more feature rich to make it more attractive to upgrade old software users.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
Geez, whoever moded me Flamebait didn't get that this was supposed to be a joke. I mean, he was extending the traditional Slashdot flamewar topic of Mozilla vs. Firefox/Thunderbird to relate to the *other* traditional Slashdot flamewar topic of Linux vs. BSD, so I figured it was only natural to "collect all three," so to speak, and add emacs vs. vi. Some people just can't take a joke.