If you're building on the Mozilla platform, why not help us out by contributing to the Mozpad API Project. It's as simple as running a script in your source tree to identify the Mozilla platform interfaces you're using. This kind of data will help the Mozilla platform evolve more carefully.
Posted by: Jean-Pierre Norguet | October 1, 2007 6:23 AM
My question would be...
Is anyone building Firefox anymore??? It seems that all the usual Moz outlets are, and have been for some time, dead... No news... no roadmap... no recent releases... excitement gone... Is Firefox dead???
Posted by: jim | October 1, 2007 9:17 AM
Jim, you're not looking in the right places. There are more people doing more and bigger work on Firefox than ever before.
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Posted by: Asa Dotzler | October 1, 2007 9:28 AM
Asa... I'd love to know where the right places are... I've following the Mozilla project since pre Moz 1.0... I used to catch up with mozillazine (virtually dead), mozzilanews (dead), this blog (very slow), burning edge (bi-weekly update, instead of the old dailly) and spread firefix (still there...)... Where are the right places?? I would really like to know what happened... it seems more a more people are using firefox, but the development excitement seems to be gone... Maybe it's the result of the new found wealth and highly controlled corporate style governance...
Posted by: jim | October 1, 2007 10:57 AM
Jim, I doubt your being unable to find the activity, which certainly has moved from Mozillazine and Mozillanews to the newsgroups and the wikis, has anything to do with money or governance -- neither of which are "new found".
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Posted by: Asa Dotzler | October 1, 2007 11:03 AM
Asa... I'm really not trying to be a jerk here but...
Try pretending that you're an occasional, but interested, software developer...
Look at the Wiki. You'll see much of the following...
1) 'Community portal' -- Greated by message of 'The original creator of this page has left, so it may be out of date; feel free to add in new pages yourself!'
2) 'Mozilla News' -- by your own admission, not really active anymore
3) Firefox3 Release Roadmap (http://wiki.mozilla.org/ReleaseRoadmap) --- last updated 11/8/2006
4) Firefox3 expected release date --- 1st quarter 2007
5) Random Page -- probably the most intuitive way to get around this Wiki;)
This is what I see from the Mozilla Wiki. Frankly, I don't find it very useful. You mention the newsgroups as well. When I'm able to discover where it is they lie... I'd love to take a look at them.
In the mean time, I'm forced to ask again, is Firefox dead?
Posted by: Jim | October 1, 2007 11:34 AM
No, Firefox is not dead.
Is that all you wanted to know?
Jim, I'm not sure what you want to know. Do you want to build Firefox? Please ask.
Posted by: Martijn | October 3, 2007 1:39 AM
^^ Yep... That's the way I've seen a lot of developer-types respond to end user complaints: "why don't go build it yourself if you don't like it?".
Very professional.
Posted by: marc | October 13, 2007 8:47 PM
Mozpad sounds a bit like Notepad, Wordpad, or any kind of a pad. Maybe a bit confusing? Too good there is that "API" behing the name; really reassuring! :)