[thelist] RE: [ - Examples of Importing XML into Netscape or Mozilla? - ]

[Michael KImsal]

Haag, Jason wrote:

>
>>From my reading on several developer discussion boards during the past
>several months,
>a lot of people are referencing these examples.
>If NS ever wants to reclaim it's share of the browser market aside from the
>AOL browser incoporation/conversion,
>they should play the propoganda game or at least demonstrate some easily
>implemented examples for developers.
>
>

They won't.  There are some basic XUL functionality (you know, that
stuff that
Mozilla-lovers have been touting as the MS killer?) that simply won't work
without having to manually CLOSE the browser, locate some obscure prefs
file, edit it (with currently undocmented stuff) then restart.  NO ONE will
do that, and if the developers can't make such basic stuff on by default
NOW
(during testing) they'll never make this stuff on by default for
production.

The primary people motivated into working on Mozilla are doing it because
they love to adhere to standards, not out of a love of making a great
browser.
They generally think that implementing standards *will* make a
better browser, but the 'great browser' part is secondary to great
standards.

Things that are painfully obvious to anyone who works with web applications
are still broken.  The people writing Mozilla can't be using it to write
web applications.   We wouldn't buy cars from engineers who either
didn't or couldn't drive, yet we're expected to use browsers written by
people
who don't understand the basics of web applications?

Also, reclaiming marketshare from MS is, I think, the last thing
of Mozilla developers' minds.  It's too easy for most people to revel
in the 'victim' role.

Oh, and yes, if it shows up the headers, I'm writing this in Mozilla's
mail program,
because it's the only thing under Linux that works with my IMAP account.
 I'm
trying to go a week without using Windows for anything (day 2 so far).

:)

Michael Kimsal