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From: invalid.address at do.not.email (guppy)
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Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 15:38:50 GMT
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Subject: Crappy Software was Re: [OffTopic: Netscape] Re: How should Python be evangelized?
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References: <7dos4m$usi$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <m2oglcc55e.fsf@netmeg.net> <7dqs0h$lcq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <2_6M2.30$Kj1.679@198.235.216.4> <37019F42.EA55CA8@kanga.org> <009d01be7b47$8a9a6020$f29b12c2@pythonware.com> <ZasM2.519$eJ.94284@news.shore.net> <7dtmso$7u6$1@news.clarkson.edu> <PGuM2.537$eJ.99882@news.shore.net> <3703ca33.9749737@news.bctel.ca> <37089dcb@fermi.armored.net> <slrn7gj0gf.316.wtanksle@dolphin.openprojects.net> <370bd698.137859911@news.dslspeed.com>
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And another kick at Netscape:
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Jamie Z, pretty much the alpha geek programmer at Netscape, has resigned.
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And in his words: "...I strongly believed that Netscape was no longer
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capable of shipping products. ... Netscape was shipping garbage, and
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shipping it late. And daring move or no, this was not going to change:
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Netscape no longer had the talent, either in engineering or management, to
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ship quality products. The magic was gone, as the magicians had either
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moved on to more compelling companies, or were having their voices lost in
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the din of the crowd, swamped by the mediocrity around them. The Netscape I
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cared about was dead."
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The Web Standards Organization has this to say: "We do not plan on
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reviewing any Netscape browsers.... Netscape does not claim that
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Communicator 4.0 or 4.5 is CSS compliant. Trying to list the important bugs
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would be an exercise in writing long documents, one we do not have the
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patience to do. Running Netscape 4.x through the tests we use... will
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provide a clear demonstration of Netscape's current shortcomings to anyone
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who doubts them. Of about 40 test pages in those two reviews, there are
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only two that don't demonstrate problems in Netscape Communicator (and we
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weren't even looking for bugs in Netscape Communicator when we wrote those
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tests)."
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--
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MSpeak: in-no-va-tion, n. 1. extending or modifying
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existing standards in undocumented ways. 2. creating
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new, undocumented standards. --de-com-mod-it-ize, v.
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