Why Gecko Matters...Friday March 24th, 2000Jeffery Zeldman of both The Web Standards Project and A List Apart has written an interesting article about Gecko, and why it will be a web developer's godsend, thanks to its vast standards support, and availability on a variety of platforms. We can't emphasize enough how important your oversight and contributions can be to Mozilla. Mozilla will only succeed with the help of people passionate for a browser that lives up to the potential of the Web. Grab a daily build and put it through its paces. Report any bugs you find at Bugzilla using the new Bugzilla Helper. And if you have any questions, there are people in the #mozillazine channel at irc.mozilla.org willing to help. You can log in from our chat page. I find it ironic that I'm reading an article about that Gecko is so great and when I click on a link (using the latest nightly Netscape beta for WinNT) the page jumps halfway up and doesn't go to where the link points to until I scroll back down and click it again. I'm pretty sure that's not how the W3C intended links to work! haha Jokes aside, it's a good article. A real irony is that Microsoft is going to bring out a Mac browser that shares the same version number as its windows counterpart but is built around a different architecture...and will probably require writing specialized versions of pages that take advantage of Microsoft's latest "technology" (read: crappy proprietary extensions to the real standards) Netscape is ALMOST there. I can't wait to see what they have to unveil to the world in just a few weeks. s/he's damn right: i am using the m14 build on win98 to read an article about web standards and how compliant gecko will be... and it doesn't f*?!ing work! and i mean: simple links don't work. i'd love this thing to work but i don't see it happening especially not in the time frame they seem to have set themselves (release a beta within the next 3-4 weeks). and it shouldn't happen as long as it is not even half way perfect. a few weeks more won't hurt anyone.. We need a "Get Mozilla Now!" logo - officially commissioned and sanctioned - for people to use on their sites... nothing like appealing to the masses. I set up a home spun link on my companies corporate intranet homepage and we got shitloads of downloads... 600 plus in a week. |