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Re: Amizilla: donating, discussion, etc...
« on: May 22, 2003, 06:10:39 AM »
Yes, to port firebird is a good idea. But i think we should wait untill, mozilla has steped up to the plate, in terms of its next big release. Mozilla as seen by most people is just a browser. Some people think its a little more, a mail client and composer. However Mozilla is much more than allt his. Its a platform. A platform for creating platform independent web friendly applications. If/When Mozilla is ported to AmigaOS we'll be able to run many more applications taht have been written for Mozilla. Firebird is just one of them. Soon, thunder bird (a standalone mail client based on mozilla) will be avaliable. Its pre .1 atm. However, Mozilla is still young, and most peoply prolly dont have a clue how much power this platform has. There for, i think porting should wait untill the next stage of mozillas future is firmly in place. This way we can take advantage of mozillas power and not just port a browser, but port a platform independed development environment. That way apps like Thunder bird will hardly even need a recompile. Most apps wont at all once you have the fondation down.

Thats also why i dont think the money should go towards other projects like iBrowse or Voyger... The money should only be for Mozilla (because i believe it gives us more than just a browser).
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Re: Amizilla: donating, discussion, etc...
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2003, 09:04:09 AM »
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I think the firebird would be a good choice to port, because It's much smaller than mozilla's original browser and it's developed for speed and to be cross-platform.


Damn right :) Anyway, MozillaFirebird will be packaged with Mozilla with releases > 1.4. That is MozillaFirebird will be Mozillas defualt browser... Thunderbird will also be packaged with  Mozilla > 1.4.
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Re: Amizilla: donating, discussion, etc...
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2003, 01:32:15 PM »
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First of all, I think a 68k port would be useless. Mozilla is dog slow on a PII 333MHz/256MB RAM both on Windows and on Linux.


Ahhh, i used phoenix .5 on a P2 233 with 64M of ram. Its quite fast. The full mozilla build was a little slower, but a lot of the UI issue relating too speed and/or responsivness has been worked out. You'd know that if you ever used the M17->M18's or before that...

Maybe thats what your thinking about? Have you used Firebird yet? Do it :) its fantastic! I cant wait for Thunderbird, and i wounder what OEOne (mozilla based desktop) will do with the mozilla code when we hit 1.4+

very interesting.

Thats another thing. By porting Mozilla one coudl create a very interesting workbench replacement. :) Now that would be damn cool :).
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Re: Amizilla: donating, discussion, etc...
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2003, 05:32:01 AM »
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let's just get the basic tables and text layout part working first before we start embarking on a workbench replacement project shall we!?


haha i wasnt implying anyone particular do it. Im just saying whats possible with the mozilla environment.
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Re: Amizilla: donating, discussion, etc...
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2003, 03:06:14 PM »
I submited it to slashdot yesterday or the day before, but it didnt get posted... :} not everything gets posted... Maybe it was the way i worded it? maybe someone else could have a go?
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