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I was working on the documentation for 1.0 http://www-archive.mozilla.org/start/1.0/ http://www-archive.mozilla.org/start/1.0/ Specifically I co-wrote the 1.0
by davidgerard 10y ago
I was working on the documentation for 1.0 http://www-archive.mozilla.org/start/1.0/ http://www-archive.mozilla.org/start/1.0/
Specifically I co-wrote the 1.0 FAQ http://www-archive.mozilla.org/start/1.0/faq/ http://www-archive.mozilla.org/start/1.0/faq/
I also wrote (and Gerv hacked right down) the page explaining Open Source/Free Software (while trying to keep both camps happy) http://www-archive.mozilla.org/start/1.0/opensource.html http://www-archive.mozilla.org/start/1.0/opensource.html
I'd basically been a volunteer tester and bug reporter through 2000 and 2001. Mozilla wasn't a good browser then, it was rubbish and it crashed even more than IE5. But it was important to keep testing it and crashing it and sending in the talkback crash dumps and so on.
- BrendanEich 10y agoThanks, sorry I didn't remember you or check about:credits. Now the part you didn't answer: did you lay good odds at the time? Not putting you down at all if you did not. If you had, my hat would be off to you -- and you should try predicting other stuff, and betting large if you are accurate! Again, the notion of Mozilla succeeding in any restart-the-browser gambit was considered long odds by all pundits and almost everyone involved in Mozilla at the time. Phoenix (née mozilla/browser) was a pirate ship in 2002.
- davidgerard 10y agoI must say I didn't quite :-) I figured it was an uphill battle, but I did figure we were in with a chance. That even with a big fat Netscaped Mozilla, it was not hopeless.