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It seems that they're racing to get to 9 for "version parity" with Internet Explorer. And really, as you mentioned the whole version number is utterly meaningl
by ergo98 16y ago
It seems that they're racing to get to 9 for "version parity" with Internet Explorer.
And really, as you mentioned the whole version number is utterly meaningless. In contrast some open source projects have evolved and changed incredibly over many years and still sit at a sub-1.0 version number. Anyone who would call that slow would be adding superficial analysis noise.
- edanm 16y agoThat may be true. But this is a good example of something that means one thing to programmers, and another to customers. We know version numbers are meaningless, but I'm guessing most people would put down software version 0.3, because it doesn't sound good. Come to think of it, I would also prefer a version 10 over a version 0.6, even if consciously it makes no sense. Just another reason webapps are better. No version numbers to keep track of! :)
- tl 16y agoAs another example, Minecraft (recently mentioned on HN) is currently on version 1.1.0 despite still being in its Alpha.