Mozilla Plug-in API Now OnlineThursday September 16th, 1999The Plug-in API spec is now online, so if you are interested in creating a new plugin within the new spec, or upgrading an old plugin to take advantage of the new APIs, be sure to check it out. Also important to note is that upgrading does not come at the expense of backwards compatibility. There's also a curious reference to "Netscape Navigator 2000". Please, say it ain't so! Thanks to Willy Wonka for the news. They said. The Mozilla Browser which is the Open one. Netscape Navigator 2000 being still open but using the corporate name. And Neoplanet which will be using some parts of Mozilla. Interesting Please don't! I'm sick of hearing XX Software2000 or xx2k or y2k or eSOMETHING or iSOMETHING. If you read a few paragraphs down it refers to Netscape 5.x. Guess the marketing boyz haven't figured it out yet either. Mhhh, is this the new XPCOM-plugin-API, or is this the traditional plugin-APi ?? Strange. It's almost like they couldn't decide to call it NN5 or NN2000. At http://people.netscape.com/ornduff/nav5plug.htm, it's referred to as NN2000. But at the newer (Sept 16 as opposed to Sept 14) document at http://people.netscape.com/ornduff/plugin.htm, the one referenced in the MZ post, it's referred to as NN5. Looks like Talkback has a bug if you follow-up a link immediately with a comma. Those links should have been: http://people.netscape.com/ornduff/nav5plug.htm and http://people.netscape.com/ornduff/plugin.htm even if they do, it just shows that M$ does NOT own the rights to years. I'd see it as a spit in the eye, and not a real problem, especially given that Navigator New is SOOOOO different from Navigator Old. It's a bigger leap than from 4.61 to 5.0, I think. Why call it 'Navigator' anyway? Why not just Browser 5.0? They should just call it "it" It is released! Download It Now! It now! Choose It! if they called it "it" people would not know which one it is some people would not no even if they put it on netscape's site The problem with years instead of a version number is that it does not give the user any idea of how much the product has been changed or improved. Is it a major or minor upgrade or just a maintenance release? As far as the Navigator or Communicator name, there are a lot of people who do not know one from the other. To a large number of people it is just Netscape. To test this, ask a casual user what browser they are using. If they say "Netscape," ask them if it is Navigator or Communicator and prepare to get a blank stare. Yeah, I've seen cases where people don't even know what a browser is. They either know it as Netscape or Internet Explorer and aren't away that both are called browsers. Part of it is due to good brand names. Netscape sounds cool, so cool people forget the rest of it or don't bother with the rest. Take the name Xerox, a lot of people say they're going to xerox something instead of copy. Version numbers really don't give much information either, more often than not, since it's usually the sales and marketing folks who decide such things. I wouldn't have a problem with having year-based versions, and appending an 'a', 'b', 'c', etc for minor releases. Who's Willy Wonka (the person responsible for the news)? And don't talk to me about chocolate factories! BK I think that Netscape 2000 or Millenium is a good name for Mozilla. Netscape should have named 4.5 as 5.0, now that Netscape has added so many features yet everyone still think that IE is a generation ahead... Netscape 2000 would sound like Netscape has leapfroged IE5, which is actually true. Plus, Microsoft is likely to name the next IE as IE 2000. So it'd be good for Netscape to "get there" ahead of Microsoft. by gordoncy@yahoo.com Nah. Microsoft won't name the next IE IE 2000. Why, you may ask? Simple; they'll be too busy dealing with all the fallout of Y2K bugs in W2K to get a new browser out for at least 17 years. :) "yet everyone still think that IE is a generation ahead..." Hello?! IE5 *IS* a generation ahead of NS4.x. Even IE4 was a generation ahead! Mozilla will be a generation ahead of IE5, but that's another matter. |