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Mozilla Starts To Follow a New Drumbeat
ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "Key, then, to the Drumbeat project is openness, specifically openness as applied to the Internet. That fits in well with the original impulses behind Mozilla and Firefox. The former was about transforming the Netscape Communicator code into an open source browser, and the latter was about defending open standards from Microsoft's attempt to lock people into Internet Explorer 6 and its proprietary approaches. Both Mozilla and Firefox have succeeded, but the threats have now changed."
I don't know what this drumbeat is, but I keep having a tap,tap,tap,,,tap in my head and it's driving me mad. Can you hear it?
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
Open, participatory, decentralized and public. Does that sound like someone wants to take control of your online life? Doesn't sound like that to me.
says Spyware23. And just how far we trust YOUR motives, hmmmm? (j/k, of course. GP clearly didn't go to the trouble of comprehending TFA. )
Writing are hards!
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That's fits in well with good editorial style.
I want HTML5 to die and Silverlight to live.
HTML was never designed to be a web application infrastructure and all the hacks in the world will never make it so. It just gets worse and more convoluted with each release.
Actually, what I'd really like to see in FF is *LESS BLOAT* and some attention to memory management... I'll wait...
Did I hear someone say they wanted a browser with less bloat?
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Key, then, to writing summaries is quality sentences, specifically sentences that don't read like this one.
The text was pulled straight from the article. You should direct your energy at the original article writer.
Key, then, to writing good comments is to RTFA, specifically the linked article?
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
Rewriting Firefox from scratch would be a suicidal move by Mozilla. A simpler solution is fork Chromium and port XUL to run on top of WebKit and V8. This way they get good code to base their browser on, while maintaining ownership to the (newer) code.
In the meantime they can continue Gecko 1.9 development and try to bring in more of WebKit and V8 into the codebase.
In ways kinda like what happened with KHTML and WebKit.
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You know, I always suspected Mozilla's crash-reporting software was kinda lame under the hood - but I would've never guessed that its crash reporting mechanism was to post on Slashdot...
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