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Mitchell Baker, Chief Lizard Wrangler for Mozilla, has
denied that Mozilla's development model will change.
In related news, nullspace
wrote in about netomat, a new
"non-linear browser". "It bucks the trends of current browsers by mining random visuals and snippets of sentences from the Web and having it float endlessly across a black backdrop, accompanied by clips of sound, if the user desires.
Users can specify a topic, then retrieve text, images, and/or audio from the Internet on the subject. They navigate by typing keywords into the browser, not by pointing and clicking."
Hear, hear! I agree completely!
Many people who have not kept up on where mozilla currently is and what it is doing, constantly talk about how it is 'doomed' and failed. JWZ is not clairvoyant, and while he may not have been happy on how things were going, many people are. I believe that JWZ left more because of the AOL thing than anything doing with Mozilla. It's unfortunate that he completely gave up the project. A huge amount of progress has been made since JWZ left, and the alpha milestones are racking up.
If nothing else, the open source community has gained a VERY nice HTML/DHTML/CCSS1 layout engine in the form of Gecko, which is currently being integrated into several projects, including Gnome.
Just wait until Mozilla comes tromping down YOUR street. Won't you be sorry then?
jf