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Okay, so you now you have edited the source code and compiled a binary, is your recommendation that the binary be downloadable and installable by the user from
by recoiledsnake 15y ago
Okay, so you now you have edited the source code and compiled a binary, is your recommendation that the binary be downloadable and installable by the user from the website?
Open source is one thing, but if you're not able to convince Google and Apple to ship your changes, you've hit a wall. FF implementing support for the WebKit extensions is what will break the web back into the IE-dominant era.
- nerfhammer 15y agoFor the example given were activeX open source then its windows-specificity would be rendered moot as some fork would displace it. Or, if were webkit not open source then it would probably not end up being a joint apple-google production. Joe-bob's ideas for CSS that he compiles into Firefox himself may not be relevant, but eventually if FF sucks enough some fork of it will displace it as it did for Mozilla (cf. V8 displacing JavascriptCore) per some version of Kuhnian paradigm-shift.
- mbrubeck 15y agoNote that, to get the web out of the IE-domininant era, it was first necessary for Firefox to implement IE extensions like document.all and innerHTML. Having a competing browser is useless if it won't work with the content that people want to use.
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