Why porting Mozilla to Amiga??

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The day we had the OSNews and Slashdot news a couple of weeks ago coverage we had 425,000 page views in a matter of hours.  Mozilla browsers accounted for nearly 45% of those accessing www.pegasosppc.com.  All Microsoft browsers accounted for just a bit less.  Contrast this with Google's stats for April: 93% Microsoft something, 3% Mac, and 1% Linux (its not just Apples and oranges  ;-)  ).  Anyway, even last week with this coverage, Safari (KHTML) ranked second!  There is a shift afoot and when people see things they are familiar with the have a tendency to be less hesitant to change (for example Linux to MorphOS).  Hence, there is some credence to the Mozilla port (if anyone can really do it!).  To quote a famous friend of ours named Ralph, "it's a *pig*" (Mozilla that is).  Anyway, we agree with HeUnique, go ask Apple.  KHTML made sense for them, why not us?  Plus, with the latest episode of Microsoft vs. AOL where will Mozilla be headed anyway?  As Damien said, "So much code, so little time!"

:-)

R&B

P.S. Internally, we are sticking with Voyager.  BTW, iBrowse had 3% of the views on the last OSNews-day, Opera 5%.

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Hi mikeymike...the problem with Opera is that we and you have to pay for upgrades...

R&B :-)

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Just a bright and early added note....

Opera has a very good package.  We had discussions with them three months ago.  For what they wanted and for the recurring costs it would be easier to buy Amiga Inc.  End of story.  They are just another group of young guys who think they have re-invented the world and have not ridden the wave to the beach yet....;-)

On other fronts, we have been in discussions with Bill P. since he started his bounty program through "greenboy" of the Phoenix Developer Consortium.  We are ready to significantly fund the effort, but there have to be certain professional development standards applied and it has to be done externally from Genesi.  We are too busy and we do not want to distract our internal teams from doing what they have to do.  BTW, remember we have Voyager and it needs some work to be in the mode...;-)

Just to repeat something indicated earlier....human beings do not do well with change.  People like to do what they are used to doing.  Change has to be driven by convenience/ease of use or at least familiarity (a smarter man once stated the converse: necessity is the mother of invention).  Mozillia is familiar to the market we are attacking.  If the browser looks and feels the same *and even works better* - how it does it becomes irrelevant.  All these computer, OS, and application discussions are a means to an end and not an end in theirselves.  OK, there are some fanatics who just like to look at their computers and mostly just talk about it, but this is not our focus.  We want people to be able to DO things!

This branding discussion could bring us back to the whole Amiga/Atari issue, but we will save that for another thread.

Have a great day!

Raquel and Bill :-)

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Hey Bill...

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The Opera guys are not anyone you can't do a deal with.  

What is your excuse?  We spoke to them.  Have you ever?  What have you ever done by the way, Mr. Self-Righteous, self appointed seer of all things?  Grumpy old man!  Bah!

BTW, if we did not mention it iBrowse was the #1 Amiga Browser on the Slashdot/OSNews day.

R&B :-)

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Hey Bill, where have you been?

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