[3145] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Need to know if migration to Netscape 6 is feasible.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Fri Feb 15 14:01:40 2002
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 13:59:51 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: <dryfoo@MIT.EDU>
cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, <release-team@MIT.EDU>, <owls@MIT.EDU>
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I believe Bill beat me to the answers for these questions.
I don't think Netscape has permanent rot - that's a little strong - but we
must remember that, now and for the foreseeable future, Netscape will
always be a read-only shadow copy of Mozilla - essentially just like
Mozilla but a trifle staler and with absolutely no one listening on the
developer end.
Understand, I have not PERSONALLY checked out how well Mozilla runs, what
hurdles there are to getting it installed and working for all *nix
platforms, etc. Bill has been looking into that; any spare time I've had
for browser research has gone into continued checks on Netscape 6.x.
But my feeling is that Mozilla cannot possibly ever be worse than
Netscape, and holds a far higher chance of actively becoming better.
On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 dryfoo@MIT.EDU wrote:
>
> Questions for those who may know:
>
> 1) Is there any reason to think that there will reasonably soon be a
> Netscape 6.x+1, so to speak, that doesn't suck as much as the Netscape
> 6.x that we are all hearing such awful things about?
>
> B) Is there any reason to think that the current ugliness of 6.x is part
> of some permanent new direction for Netscape, so therefored that what we
> really need to be thinking about is how to move to something else, like
> Mozilla?
>
> Both of these come down to, "is the current unpleasant aroma coming from
> Netscape 6.x just a transient problem, or a sign of permanent rot?"
> Undoubtedly some of you are better placed to evaluate this question,
> which seems central to our decisions.
>
> -- Gary L. Dryfoos, <dryfoo@mit.edu>
> Consultant, I/S Training & Publications
> N42-240, 617.253-0184
>
>
