[thelist] Mozilla Road Map.....

Anthony Baratta Anthony at Baratta.com
Thu Sep 21 00:45:06 CDT 2000


Holy Crap, Batman......

	http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html

Someone please tell me I've been smoking too much crack and don't understand what I
just read. Based upon the newly released Mozilla Road Map, Netscape 6 won't be out
until Q2 next year. (I make this supposition based upon that Netscape 6 will be
branched from the Mozilla Code Trunk at v .9 and v .9 is listed as being "ready"
first half of Q1 next year. That gives AOL/Netscape until first half of Q2 to get
their commercial version ready.)

As much as I love Netscape and as much as I want an alternative browser to succeed, I
remember us discussing and postulating the death of Netscape waaaay back in January.
I remember the much wailing, beating of breasts and gnashing of teeth as we
speculated a release date for v6 and other browser quandaries.

But none of us thought that at that time the new browser would still be a YEAR away!
6 months maybe, but not 12+. In the immortal words of Communications Technician
Private W. Hudson from Aliens, "Game over, man!".

Seriously, this really stinks. With MS releasing Windows ME and forcing more
"integration" into the OS with the likes of Windows Media player and other multimedia
"tools".  Forcing more users to blindly accept the MS way, never giving any other
tool set or program a chance. Netscape is looking like one of the lost tribes of
Israel. Left for historians to figure out what in the 'ell happened to it.

I don't even know why AOL/Netscape is even throwing any time/materials/coders at this
project anymore. AOL has shown that they are keeping IE as their default browser, and
they can't expect with a 2 year lag on v6 that it will be even ready/available or
usable for their AOL Net Appliance.

It just so sad. The browser I prefer, Netscape 4.7x is archaic now in d/HTML/CSS
support and functionality. The email client I love, Communicator - is just one or two
enhancements away from being everything I need, and is looking at staying that way.

Its so sad to see software you like die horribly like this.

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