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I give the Mozilla guys kudos for realizing they were starting to fall into the same malaise that the IE team had slumped into and are actively working to get b
by ascendant 16y ago
I give the Mozilla guys kudos for realizing they were starting to fall into the same malaise that the IE team had slumped into and are actively working to get back to a faster, more iterative development model.
- asadotzler 16y agoMaybe you experienced a different history of the last decade than I did, but in my history the IE team completely disappeared from 2001 until 2007. Suggesting that the Firefox team has ever been anything like is just silly. Yes, a year between major releases is kind of a long time today, but it's not the better part of a decade and it's not "disappearing" either. Given the choice between 1 release per year with (hypothetically) 12 new features or 3 releases per year with 4 new features each, clearly the faster releases are better for the Web and for users. But delivering 12 new features a year in one lump rather than in three lumps is not a "slump" and can not rightly be called "malaise" either. The "pace" of development has never been slow at Mozilla, only the pace of "releases" and that's what we're fixing here.
- ascendant 16y agoWell, I said they started to. You're right, the Mozilla guys never stopped developing but with Chrome coming out and seemingly running circles around them I definitely felt like they were going the way of the dinosaur. I will readily admit it was more perception than reality.