It's for use for the client side of those
protocols. If Mozilla dies, it takes down the
user interface to those protocols - what does it
matter if it brings down the connection too?
And if that matters, it's trivial to split the
connection management into a separate daemon.
Read again. What he wrote was "that are extending the traditional "web browser" into something we cannot even fully comprehend yet."
It's not the individual projects. It's the sum
of the environment and interactions and way of
working with it that the new projects are creating
that we can't fully comprehend yet - The same way
that most of us didn't comprehend what the web would become when we were using early browsers in
the web's infancy, even though the technology is
essentially the same.
It's rather annoying that so many people simply
doesn't get how open source works: People work
on what they care about. If someone wants to
work on this, and not the core browser, they will.
It's not as if that takes developers away from
the browser - if they'd wanted to work on that,
they would have.
It's time people realize that it makes no sense
whining about the work other people do for free to provide software they want or need,
and expect those people to work on something that
matters less for them.
Actually it's exactly the opposite: It's moving
back towards lots of small tools which do one
job well. This is about allowing new protocols to
be implemented as small external applications,
rather than throwing everything into the Mozilla
code.
Try reading the project page. It's not for testing
CGI's, it's for adding support for new protocols.
Instead of having to build them into Mozilla,
you'll be able to let Mozilla use external applications to implement them.
The problem is that these CCTV cameras can very
well be used for other purposes as well. It may
not be a problem under the current government,
but the more surveillance you add, the easier
it gets to trample all over your other rights
later.
Also, do you have any actual proof of how much
it reduces crime?
Practically any shop have CCTV cameras, but that
haven't stopped people from robbing shops - just
made them hide their faces.
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And if that matters, it's trivial to split the connection management into a separate daemon.
Read again. What he wrote was "that are extending the traditional "web browser" into something we cannot even fully comprehend yet." It's not the individual projects. It's the sum of the environment and interactions and way of working with it that the new projects are creating that we can't fully comprehend yet - The same way that most of us didn't comprehend what the web would become when we were using early browsers in the web's infancy, even though the technology is essentially the same.
It's time people realize that it makes no sense whining about the work other people do for free to provide software they want or need, and expect those people to work on something that matters less for them.
Actually it's exactly the opposite: It's moving back towards lots of small tools which do one job well. This is about allowing new protocols to be implemented as small external applications, rather than throwing everything into the Mozilla code.
Try reading the project page. It's not for testing CGI's, it's for adding support for new protocols. Instead of having to build them into Mozilla, you'll be able to let Mozilla use external applications to implement them.
Just two points to show you how many Americans are so US centric they'll try their best to ignore the rest of the world.
Also, do you have any actual proof of how much it reduces crime?
Practically any shop have CCTV cameras, but that haven't stopped people from robbing shops - just made them hide their faces.
You also have Veronica, used to search gopher, which may make it slightly closer related to todays web searches.