From: invalid.address at do.not.email (guppy)
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 15:38:50 GMT
Subject: Crappy Software was Re: [OffTopic: Netscape] Re: How should Python be evangelized?
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And another kick at Netscape:

Jamie Z, pretty much the alpha geek programmer at Netscape, has resigned.

And in his words: "...I strongly believed that Netscape was no longer
capable of shipping products. ... Netscape was shipping garbage, and
shipping it late. And daring move or no, this was not going to change:
Netscape no longer had the talent, either in engineering or management, to
ship quality products. The magic was gone, as the magicians had either
moved on to more compelling companies, or were having their voices lost in
the din of the crowd, swamped by the mediocrity around them. The Netscape I
cared about was dead."

The Web Standards Organization has this to say: "We do not plan on
reviewing any Netscape browsers.... Netscape does not claim that
Communicator 4.0 or 4.5 is CSS compliant. Trying to list the important bugs
would be an exercise in writing long documents, one we do not have the
patience to do. Running Netscape 4.x through the tests we use... will
provide a clear demonstration of Netscape's current shortcomings to anyone
who doubts them. Of about 40 test pages in those two reviews, there are
only two that don't demonstrate problems in Netscape Communicator (and we
weren't even looking for bugs in Netscape Communicator when we wrote those
tests)."


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existing standards in undocumented ways. 2. creating
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