Review of Mozilla's 2002

An anonymous reader writes "MozillaZine is currently featuring an article looking back at the last 12 months of the Mozilla project. It's amazing to see how far things have come in 2002. A year ago, there was no Mozilla 1.0, no Netscape 7, no Phoenix, no Chimera and no shipping AOL clients using Gecko (Mozilla's rendering engine). An interesting read."

Mozilla's future's so bright

[Anonymous Coward]

I gotta wear shades.

Long live the bayesian spam filtering!

Red star on that zeppelin

[Anonymous Coward]

Check out the zeppelin logo on Mozillazine www-pages!

A red star is painted on that zeppelin! RED STAR - why the hell? Communists in China and Russia are using red star -logos even today. So does this mean that Mozilla is the communist choice?

Re:Red star on that zeppelin

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm sure it would be. It's free, by the people for the people. A real worker's utopia, ya know?

mozilla...jwz...The Fork. Three degrees!

[Anonymous Coward]

No, the problem is really one of adaptation: Once it's build, once it's available, how do you make people come and use it?

http://www.jwz.org/doc/lemacs.html

See users switch. Switch, users, switch! See RMS fume. Fume, RMS, fume.

If you have to brainstorm ways of getting users to switch to your very-slightly-different application, the game is already over and you lost.

No popups, no Javascript, no 0wN0RZing. When Mozilla gets better than IE 3.0, call me. And please shut up about the tabs. Hide task bar much?

And no Mozilla in Playboy!

[DCowern]

Mozillazine had a blurb [mozillazine.org] about it. Here's the full text:

MOZILLA'S MO BETTA

[Mozilla.org Logo]

Microsoft's Internet Explorer is the most popular web browser in the world. But it's not the best. That title belongs to Mozilla, a volunteer-built browser that offers everything Explorer has going for it, plus a bunch of great features. Here are three reasons to switch. One: You can set a preference to prevent pop-up windows. Two: You can right-click on any banner ad and select a menu item that prevents the originating site from sending images to your browser. Three: You can open links as "tabs" that appear along the top of your browser window. Don't be fooled by the new Netscape 7.0. It lacks a built-in pop-up killer and will fire a barrage of AOL ads every chance that it gets.

Playboy, January 2003, p.36

This _has_ to be good for mainstream acceptance when such non-tech-oriented magazines like Playboy laud Mozilla so greatly. Maybe if other general living and style magazines adopt such a positive attitude, we'll see a surge in Mozilla adoption. Hey, maybe its wishful thinking but if nothing else, it's increasing awareness.

P.S. -- Consider this proof that I *DO* read the articles. :-P