Spread the word, all 30,000 of them. You can now order the brand new Firefox Guidebook from the Mozilla store.
I'm sure that all of you know how Firefox works, but does your mom? Does the librarian you just converted? Does your co-worker? Get the book for them when you convert them to Firefox or point them at the store so they can buy it themselves. You might save yourself a few late-night support calls :-)
Posted by asa at September 19, 2004 10:32 AMWho wrote the book? That content could be useful in the Firefox Help website.
Posted by: David Tenser on September 19, 2004 11:32 AMThat sounds marvelous! :-D
Are there any plans on making translations of the book? Not necessarily printed of course (well, to begin with anyway). Most people I wish to convert don't speak very good English, so I have to explain things to them in French, and at times it gets difficult.
I wish I could afford a credit card, I really want to buy stuff at the Mozilla Store... :-(
Posted by: Markus Lindström on September 19, 2004 11:35 AMEhm, don't you think, that you could give a little more information? Right now there is only the title, a picture of the cover and half a blurb. That's not enough to even start to decide if it is a book worth spending mony on. Come on now. What can I expect from it? Is it a tutorial or a reference or just a every-button/menu/dialog-ennumerating-users-guide? Whats the style like: witty or dry? Lots of text or lots of screen shots? Will I learn something, is it trivial or black magic? At least show a couple of representative spreads, the TOC, a sample section, contence of the CD, and a back-of-the-cover-type description (You have been to amazon, bn, ..., right?). Otherwise it's at best silly.
Posted by: Lauritz Jensen on September 19, 2004 12:23 PMI can't understand why the Mozilla Foundation would decide to sell copies of a hard print book covering a topic as ever-changing as a piece of software. Hmm, maybe to make the guidebook outdated in 3 months and to rake in as much money as possible from those gullible enough to purchase it.
Posted by: Anon on September 19, 2004 01:19 PMDavid, I think Blake wrote the guidebook. He mentioned working on it when Mozilla 1.7 guidebook was nearing release.
It's a guidebook. It's what most people would expect when buying a software guidebook. It guides you through the software feature set and tells you how to use the software. It was written to accompany Firefox 1.0 and it won't be outdated until the next version of Firefox ships which, I can guarantee you, won't be in three months.
--Asa
Posted by: Asa Dotzler on September 19, 2004 02:33 PMAhem. Is the source to the book available anywhere (= how about translating it)?
Posted by: Nikolai on September 19, 2004 02:49 PMGecko is so much faster than KHTML! I'm really impressed.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 20, 2004 04:47 AM