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Mozilla "beta" Release Coming
Bruno Barreyra writes "I was checking out mozilla.org just for kicks and I found out that they are closing in a so-called "M3 Milestone." There was a feature freeze last Sunday and right now they are working at minimizing bugs for a distributed release. The M3 release will "provide enough basic functionality in place to allow everyone working on the product to use apprunner for their daily browsing and mail." "
Mozilla is turning out to be something wonderful for the entire open source and otherwise community... PLEASE show your support by getting the nightly binaries and reporting all the bugs you find...
Although Mozilla has taken a long long time to product results, remember everyone's starting from scratch with an entirely new layout engine that will knock your socks off...
Just WAIT till you see what you can do with a COMPLETE implementation of CSS1 and XML and all the other toys that Internet Exbloater 5 STILL doesn't do correctly!
Please support this project folks! They really really need bugtesters and supporters and developer help and some press and some old fashioned rah-rah-going...
This is an ENTIRELY open source effort with a very fair license, and AOL/Netscape is VERY GRACIOUSLY donating more than 100 developers to this effort...
Tired of Netscape 4.0 or 4.5 crashing every five minutes or eating up all your resources? You've got an option now along with Opera and Lynx that is truly world-class coding...
PLEASE SUPPORT MOZILLA IF YOU CAN!
Thanks
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Slashdot lost my original post, so I'll keep this one short...
SUPPORT MOZILLA PLEASE!
This is a wonderful opportunity to help create a modular, extensible, flexible, resource-efficient web browser that incorporates all current open web standards, standards which Internet Exbloater 5 is still lacking in...
AOL/Netscape has graciously donated 100 developers to this effort, and they have done almost 80% of the work. If we want future open source projects of this magnitude to happen again, we need to support www.mozilla.org NOW!
Visit the website, read some newsgroups, and get involved!
The Unix builds are a few days behind the Win32 builds, but they're rapidly getting there in terms of feature parity and DEBUGGING HELP IS NEEDED!
ESPECIALLY the Linux builds...
The underlying architecture is almost complete; once you see what Mozilla can do (go see some of the w3c.org CSS1 tests, or the mozilla.org XML/CSS tests!!) you will be blown away at the power of the internet...
It's up to us to make Mozilla a success folks, and technically, there is not a reason in the WORLD to not support such a project...
Get involved please!
P.S.
Mozilla just hit 1 million lines of code and is rapidly nearing completion.
Netscape 4.x required 5 million lines of code.
What gets me is that installing IE5 means you can't have IE4 or IE3 on your system (Win32 that is). Being a web developer, this is REALLY annoying.
My ISP posted it on their website. So I tried to D/L it, but it just sent me a 500K executable called ie5setup.exe or something like that. Considering (a) I was in Linux and didn't see why I should be forced to be in Windows just to get IE5, and (b) considering MS's track record with privacy, I didn't want to be using some Microsoft executable just to download IE5; so I decided to just try get the plain installation files so that I could install offline.
... I had to press "Reload" about five times for each page I tried to view before I could view it, because I kept getting "network error"'s. It was incredibly slow and kept disconnecting. (All other websites I viewed were fine, so the problem wasn't on my side.)
So I headed for www.microsoft.com, in hopes of locating instructions for doing this, and a nearby mirror.
But I had so many problems
Then there was the font issue. I could scarcely read what was written on their pages (and in many parts I couldn't read it at all.) (I use Navigator 4 on Linux.) Considering that almost every other website on the planet IS capable of creating web pages readable with all web client software, I thought it seemed incredibly strange that a company like Microsoft, which is supposed to be really clued-up and professional, can't even design web pages based on the most simple of web-design principles.
So then, amidst dozens of "network error"'s, I tried in vain to click on their "feedback" page, so that I could inform them that were many issues with their website preventing me from obtaining IE5 (and I'm sure they wouldn't want that now.) I was going to suggest that (a) they migrate their website from NT to one of the Unix'es, to make it faster and more stable, and (b) that they go on some basic html design courses, so that they can design readable web pages and not look so unprofessional.
But the feedback thing kept taking me to something that seemed to be labelled a "registration wizard" or something. Presumably I was going to have to give them personal information before being allowed to send feedback.
But this turned out to not be a problem when I had so much trouble just trying to get the dang feedback page to download without giving errors, that I gave up, deciding to try out IE5 "another day", when they put it on the network at work or something.