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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.