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IE team sends a cupcake for FireFox 5
- jberryman 15y agoIt's a trap!
- RossDM 15y agoThe Internet Explorer team sent Mozilla a whole cake for previous Firefox releases. http://www.openbuddha.com/2011/03/22/another-version-of-firefox-another-cake/ http://www.openbuddha.com/2011/03/22/another-version-of-fire... What does this mean?! Perhaps Firefox 5's release is not as significant as earlier versions? ;-P
- adziki 15y agoTimes are tough for MS, can only afford a cupcake now. Maybe a donut next... then an eclair...
- rcthompson 15y agoIt means that the IE team clearly saw through Mozilla's transparent attempt to get more cake by releasing more often.
- Ideka 15y agoYeah, they are just too smart. Smart and cruel. I mean, look at the size of that box, and compare it with the size of the cupcake. It's a freaking tease.
- juiceandjuice 15y agoThis may be the last cake.
- juiceandjuice 15y agoI meant that in the sense that they are switching to rolling versions (i.e. no more versions, it's just 'firefox')
- amock 15y agoFirefox 5 is the first of a string of insignificant releases. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Development http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox#Development
- ricardobeat 15y agoIt's a conceptual change. If your product is going to be incrementally evolved, major releases won't exist, so version numbers are not milestones anymore. If they didn't do this, but switched to incremental development and still followed standard versioning practices, we'd be stuck at 4.xxx forever :)
- bradfordw 15y agoThey spent all that money on Skype and now this is all they can afford. It's the thought that counts.
- notatoad 15y agoappropriately sized
- keyle 15y agoNow that Firefox 5 has a smaller release cycle, does that mean smaller cakes? :-)
- ladon86 15y agoI'd like to see them send Google one for every Chrome release.
- baddox 15y agoThat would get expensive.
- jjcm 15y agoI think that's why they switched to cupcakes.
- bballbackus 15y agoSmaller changes, smaller cakes.
- shawnbaden 15y agoToo bad they didn't roll out a funeral procession like they did for the iPhone when Windows Phone launched...
- lindbergh 15y agoSincerely, this is a lovely tradition.
- markchristian 15y agoI was just about to say the same thing — this is my favourite industry tradition. Hats off.
- emehrkay 15y agoThey should send IE text-shadow
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- pmikal 15y agoIE team loves to poke shots at other browsers. Anyone remember the giant E placed on the lawn of Netscape's office in Mountain View? I think it was ~1997. They then dominated the browser market for the next few years.
- taway990 15y agoI like when developers can put aside the retarded faux hatred we are all supposed to have for each other as dictated by our corporate / OSS overlords and do things like this, of course I am sure many will find some demeaning/ulterior motivevs, because you know, no way the IE team actually has human beings on it.
- ricardobeat 15y agoThat's awesome. Mozilla was very inconsiderate of the IE team on changing release cycles :D