Mozilla Coming Attractions
Mozilla.org has recently added a new article to their status update section called Progress and Future of Mozilla-the-application-suite.
This article includes a summary of where Mozilla is now, where it will be in the next six months and what to expect in the future.
One interesting item in the "New since 1.0" category is:
- Midas, apparent Mozilla has built in support for Rich Text editing control. News to me. Take a look at the demo here if you have a Mozilla build after 01/26/03.
For the next section "What is planned for the next few months (2/2003 - 6/2003)?", the list seems pretty bland. Hopefully, this is still a document in progress since it mainly refers to cleanup and working on existing features.
Finally, in the next section, "What might be after that?" we have
- stand alone mail?, ahh! Will Minotaur never arrive!!!
- breaking apart the suite into separate applications, which seems very tied to Minotaur
So, what's left out? What features/fixes/etc would you like to see in Mozilla in the next six months?
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Anyone have a screenshot of Midas?
The best thing you can do for a screenshot is to check out the "demo" link in the story
Customizable toolbars. Otherwise, I am sticking with Phoenix.
Customizable toolbars may be coming to Mozilla soon according to this UI Spec doc [PDF] at mozilla.org
speed speed speed.
I've been using opera7 and it has almost all the features of mozilla but its much faster.
speed speed speed.
I've been using opera7 and it has almost all the features of mozilla but its much faster.
> speed speed speed
define faster.
Faster to load pages?
Faster to switch tabs?
Faster to do back and forth?
Did you try to tune mozilla/phoenix to make it faster to render the pages to see if that solves your problem?
J.
About Opera 7, nice browser, but when it comes to DOM performance it really needs to improve, just compare this page with Mozilla and see (IE is far better than both though):
http://pascal.dynamic-core.net/greym/archives/00000016.php
What I would like to see is not new features, but to fix existing bugs, for example the handling of the bookmarks is badly broken, the html 4.01 support needs to be better, fix css bugs etc.
How about being able to order tabs? Once open they're stuck in that order. C'mon, how hard is that?
Speed. Page loading is decent, but going Back and Forward is particularly slow. Isn't the page i was just on cached? Then why is it taking so long to load back up? I've changed the preferences in cache options but it didn't help.
And bookmarks could be improved upon greatly. You can't even move or rename a bookmark unless you're in 'editing' mode (although yes, you can move them if the sidebar is open).
RSS feeds in the sidebar. There were kludges to do this, but RSS 2.0 broke most of them.
Spending the next few months crushing bugs and working on exisitng features is the right thing to do. Mozilla is in dire need of a big tidy up!
Minator is basically what AOL Communicator is: see http://www.datakill.com/forums/printthread.php?threadid=3054 for screenshots/download.
Safari-like bookmark system.
Anyone know how to get hold of the people "in charge" of Mozilla? I have e-mailed everyone I can find on mozilla.org without any response. I am writing because we have a Midas rich text editing tool which has been out for years, and calling their component Midas is causing confusion with our trademark. Anyone who can help?
I have been assured that it will be renamed.
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