Troche humoru rodem z #aviarypl: (uwaga, to nie sa oficjalne stanowiska AviaryPL lub Mozilli Foundation!) ;p
Day: September 20, 2005
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SIP + Gecko = ZAP
Alex just published a big post on what’s going on with ZAP project which aims to develop SIP client in Gecko.
If everything goes well, we’ll have 0.1 release this week!
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Congratz to Opera!
Finally Opera became free changing it’s state from adware to freeware.
It’s a good day for us all. It’s a (as I said previously) a great motivation for Mozilla folks since it’s
the first Firefox’s competitor on the modern browsers mainstream market.
Unfortunately it still has “MSIE 6.0” in user-agent name – and this is the very last thing that melts the competition. Once this will be fixed, all arguments of low Opera market share will disappear.
Another issue is the money. Opera seems to be pushed by Firefox to make this step, that’s obvious. I’m not too happy to hear some marketing bullshit like “After 10 years we suddenly discovered that users don’t like adverts in their browser! So we took it away. We are so cool!
Anyway, it’s a great time on the browser market. The web is speeding up, technologies are finally once more being developed, we’re moving toward the new way of creating web applications, and modern web browsers are able to handle those new technologies. The web is free, and users are the winners of this competition.
From my point, as a Mozilla coder I can promise you that we will be working hard to bring you the best tools, easiest to use, with the greatest engine under the hood. Heads up to Firefox 1.5, and, you can just start sniffing what’s for Gecko 1.9, what’s for Mozilla 2.0, what’s for Firefox 2.0, soon to beta-release Lightning, and some plans around Thunderbird (not mentioning pre-1.0 Seamonkey and Camino). Think twice before comparing Mozilla technologies with Opera, Konqueror or Internet Explorer.
Saying that – for users, this day is a good one. Opera – welcome to the free world 🙂