Browser Newsletter #7
- Opera screeches at Mozilla over security disclosure
- about:mozilla - Mozilla Messaging, Firefox 3 Beta 3, Extend Firefox 2 winners, and more
- Mozilla Messaging starts up
- They Shoot Browsers, Don’t They?
- Opera: Browser market is broken—thanks to Microsoft
- Mozilla Messaging reveals plans for Thunderbird 3
- Opera CTO: How to fix Microsoft’s browser issues
Opera screeches at Mozilla over security disclosure
[...] Opera desktop developer, said the Mozilla team notified it of a security issue only a day before publishing an advisory. This gave the Norwegian software developers insufficient time to make an evaluation. “They did not wait for us to come back with an ETA for a fix: they kept their bug reports containing the details of the exploits closed to the public for a few days, and now opened most of them to everybody,” [...]
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© The Register, 18/02/08
about:mozilla - Mozilla Messaging, Firefox 3 Beta 3, Extend Firefox 2 winners, and more
Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now available for download. This is the eleventh developer milestone focused on testing the core functionality provided by many new features and changes to the platform scheduled for Firefox 3. Ongoing planning for Firefox 3 can be followed at the Firefox 3 Planning Center, as well as in mozilla.dev.planning and on irc.mozilla.org in #granparadiso. For an outline of new features that require feedback, please see the DevNews blog post announcing the Beta.
Mozilla Messaging, the new mail focused subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation, today announced that it has begun operations. The initial focus for Mozilla Messaging is the development of Thunderbird 3 which will deliver significant improvements, including integrated calendaring, better search and enhancements to the overall user experience. Thunderbird is a free, open source email application that is used by millions of people around the world and is built using the same open source development model as Firefox. For more information about the Mozilla Messaging launch, see the press release.
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© Mozilla Developer Center, 19/02/08
Mozilla Messaging starts up
David Ascher, announced today the launch of Mozilla Messaging, Inc., a fully-owned Mozilla Foundation subsidiary (hence, sister of Mozilla Corporation) dedicated to advancing Internet messaging.
As announced and discussed before, Mozilla is aiming to develop the Internet messaging area as well as the web browsing side and after years of developing Firefox and Thunderbird as Mozilla Corporation corporation, they found competition of both products for human, time and technological resources was slowing both products’ development.
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© Mozilla Links, 19/02/08
They Shoot Browsers, Don’t They?
Proprietary innovations by browser vendors are nothing new. Internet Explorer alone has given us XMLHttpRequest, innerHTML, and colored scrollbars. In each instance, we were free to use or ignore these non-standard extensions. Now Internet Explorer is introducing a new proprietary technology in the shape of version targeting. But this time, the only way to opt out of using the technology is, perversely, to use it.
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© A List Apart, 19/02/08
Opera: Browser market is broken—thanks to Microsoft
With recent news about Internet Explorer 8’s imminent beta, Microsoft’s long and checkered history with web standards compliance has been hurled back into the harsh, unflattering spotlight. Even though IE8 will have a new “standards compliant” mode, it won’t be perfect, stirring up a new wave of grumbling about Microsoft’s attitude and position in the browser market.
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© Ars Technica, 00/00/00
Mozilla Messaging reveals plans for Thunderbird 3
The Mozilla Foundation announced today the official launch of Mozilla Messaging, a new subsidiary dedicated to creating open-source Internet communication software. The organization, which is headed by former ActiveState CTO David Ascher, will take on stewardship of Mozilla Thunderbird. The newly-formed subsidiary has also revealed plans for Thunderbird 3, the next major version of the open source mail client.
Ascher also says that the organization will work on incrementally improving the underlying architecture of Thunderbird and notes that it wants to take advantage of the platform improvements that have been developed for Firefox 3. Mozilla Messaging plans to aggressively leverage the technical strengths of Firefox, like the high potential for customization and strong HTML rendering. The organization will also look closely at emerging trends in communication and consider possibilities for integrating support for other services beyond e-mail.
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© Ars Technica, 19/02/08
Opera CTO: How to fix Microsoft’s browser issues
If there was a functioning market for web browsers and operating systems, the past few weeks would have seen two announcements from Microsoft. After a firestorm of criticism from the web design community about Internet Explorer 8’s misguided mode switching proposal, Redmond would have publicly backed down. Second, Microsoft would have bowed to 90,000 users demanding that Windows XP continue to be sold.
Microsoft’s failure to respond to its customers’ outcry shows that it is time to call on established antitrust laws that allow governments to impose sanctions on a vendor that has a dominant position in a market. The purpose of these sanctions is to ensure competition and innovation and thereby create a market in which consumers are heard.
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© The Register, 19/02/08