Places Feature Cut From Firefox 2

segphault writes "Apparently, the new bookmark and history system (called 'Places') scheduled for inclusion in Firefox 2 has been removed from the roadmap and disabled in the builds. An article at Ars Technica discusses some of the implications: 'Since Firefox 2 (and all alpha builds from here on out) will use the conventional bookmark system, those of you that have been using Firefox 2 alphas (the Gecko 1.8 branch) will have to export your bookmarks to HTML in order to preserve them. As a Firefox user and a software developer, I am personally very disappointed with the removal of this innovative feature.'" Update: 05/01 01:16 GMT by Z : Ars link updated.

Comments

By the time it is released..

[mindstormpt]

The only new feature will be the UI. Windows Vista anyone?

Re:Parent isn't shouldn't be marked redundant!

[aardvarkjoe]

Because marking a post 'redundant' is a punishment. That's the system that we have.

No, it isn't. Moderators are [or should be] moderating posts, not people. Marking a post "redundant" is simply a way to improve the quality of the discussion by removing redundant posts. This is not kindergarten where everyone's a winner if they try, and a 1-point drop in karma has no real effect on the poster.

Re:FIX THE DAMN MEMORY LEAKS ALREADY

[ameline]

>Okay hotshot, name ONE project you've worked on that has the complexity and wide audience of a web
>browser? This example you give must incorporate a complex UI (not in terms of use, but necessary
>complexity on the back end), advanced embedded scripting, render quickly, and yet not ignore security >concerns.

A couple of the projects I've worked on around here are as big or bigger than mozilla, albeit not with the same audience size as mozilla, but arguably a harder problem domain. (One of these is ~5 million lines of code, the other >30 million - with scripting, embedded languages, exceedingly complex UI -- over a thousand different tools and menu items, many hundreds of dialogs -- definitely quick rendering -- both on screen and off -- huge datasets -- Think Alias Maya and Studio Tools)

BTW I've been doing this stuff for ~20 years -- I'm not some newbie spouting off. I'm not as smart as some of the guys around here, but I do alright.

> In theory, theory and practice are the same thing. In practice... well... the real world works
> differently.

In many cases that's very true. But when it comes to Agile development, it's matching up pretty well for us these days. :-)

> Your solution works for small-scale, one-off solutions on a contract basis for one or a small
> set of customers.

I disagree -- It's working pretty well for our applications, and if you read above, they're pretty darn big. I suspect that if you applied a modicum of software engineering discipline to your projects, it might work not too badly for you too.

>Software will cease to be mediocre when users stop accepting mediocrity.

Such people are called Mac users, and their numbers are growing. (That ought to fan the flames a bit :-)

Cheers :-)