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Re: Netscape 6 Athena Status Report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Mon Jun 24 13:40:25 2002
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:40:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
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On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, t. belton wrote:
> 1. Massive differences in the way the Sun version (maintained by Sun) and
> the Linux version (maintained by Linux) do business.
That latter should read "maintained by Netscape." Hopefully you knew what
I meant.
By the by, the majority of the problems have turned out to be
Mozilla-core problems, NOT Sun or Netscape breakages. That is, most of
this has been us stumbling over the fact that Mozilla does some things
completely differently from any of its predecessors - path handling, the
way preferences are written and stored, et cetera.
Granted, their new ways may turn out to be better ways, but one could wish
that these changes were documented somewhere, in some format. Mostly they
are not.
We still believe, though, that Sun has introduced some roadblocks to our
doing things our way deliberately. Oh, I don't mean they have it in for
MIT in particular; I mean that they have "customized" their version of
Netscape in a specfic and very proprietary way which happens to conflict
with our way of doing business in almost all respects.
-Todd
