Opinions on the "enlightenment" window manager

[Philip J. Koenig]

On 13 Apr 2002, at 16:58, Net Llama! boldly uttered: 

> Philip J. Koenig wrote:
> > 0.9.8.  When I looked at what changed in 0.9.9 I didn't think there 
> > was anything worth running out and upgrading for.  Mostly cosmetic 
> > stuff or stuff I don't use.
> 
> If you use Mozilla, then you use the stuff that was improved in 
> Mozilla-0.9.9.  For starters its more stable, and runs faster.


Interesting.  I didn't get that impression from reading the release 
notes.  Reading them over again only implies certain speed 
improvements for the Solaris and BeOS ports.  I guess I'll take your 
word for it though.


> > I can tell you this: if I wasn't running Mozilla on this relatively 
> > new fire-breathing monster (P4 1.7Ghz/256MB) I don't think I could 
> > tolerate it.  It was painful on all the slower/lower memory machines 
> > I'd used it on.
> 
> Perhaps the problem was your window manager/environment, and not 
> Mozilla.  Mozilla-0.9.9 runs damn well on all of my boxes, from a lowly 
> P300 to a PIII-1Ghz.  The difference in performance between them is 
> negligible.


Well bear in mind that my 'window manager' in this case is MS 
Windows, so.. <g>

Then again, Opera is my main browser in that environment and I found 
the Linux version had the same kind of advantages over Netscape as it 
did in Windows.

 
> > Mozilla is also heavily infiltrated by Netscape/AOL influence these 
> > days, and that bugs me.  Even though Mozilla is "open source", I am 
> > under the impression that the majority of code writers are Netscape/ 
> > AOL employees, and that Netscape/AOL maintains a certain "veto" power 
> > over certain aspects.
> 
> That's not  even close to being true.  Have you looked at the content on 
> http://www.mozilla.org lately?
> 
> > 
> > As an example of why this is an issue for me:
> > 
> > http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/175035.html
> 
> Do not confuse Netscape with Mozilla.  They are not the same beast.


Which is why I don't bother with Netscape 6.  However my general 
feeling is that most of the differences are minor.  Mostly Mozilla 
seems to have gone farther down the road of giving control to users 
in areas like cookies/popup windows/etc, and not incorporating all 
the stuff that funnels people to Netscape/AOL content and sites.

I seem to recall various articles that have suggested that Netscape 
never got much interest in Mozilla from non-Netscape programmers, and 
that their own employees were still the major contributors.  I also 
was under the impression most of the senior project managers were 
Netscape employees.  I could just have it all wrong here, or that may 
have changed dramatically over the last year or so.



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Philip J. Koenig                                       pjklist at ekahuna.com
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