--- Mangelo's bullshit about Mozilla 1.2-revised.txt 2002-12-15 15:24:22.000000000 +0100 +++ Mangelo's bullshit about Mozilla 1.3a-revised.txt 2002-12-15 15:23:04.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,13 +1,16 @@ AOL-Netscape's Mozilla Organization placed the Mozilla 1.2 update milestone release to its Mozilla 1.0 browser suite on its public FTP server overnight. +In effect, Mozilla 1.3 will be a replacement for Mozilla 1.2.1. AOL-Netscape's Mozilla Organization placed Mozilla 1.1, the first .x upgrade to its Mozilla 1.0 browser-suite on its public FTP server on 26 August 2002. Mozilla 1.0 was released 5 June 2002. -Two pre-1.2 Mozilla milestone editions, Mozilla 1.2-alpha and Mozilla 1.2-beta were made available for public downloading on 12 September and 16 October 2002 respectively. +For the details and more information about the problems and bugs that forced the Mozilla Organization to recall Mozilla 1.2, please see our article, Buggy Mozilla 1.2 Recalled. Mozilla 1.2 sports some improvements and new features since Mozilla 1.1 and Mozilla 1.0. However, overall Mozilla has more bugs now than ever and the Mozilla Organization still is playing footsie with security and privacy issues. Please see Table 1, below. +The Mozilla 1.3a release is a week late The Mozilla Roadmap called for Mozilla 1.3a to have been released on 6 December 2002. +However, unfixed bugs prevented Mozilla 1.3a's timely release. Mozilla 1.1 Killed Mozilla 1.0, Etc. @@ -20,7 +23,9 @@ We suspect effectively killing Mozilla 1.0 as soon as it could be killed has been the intent of the Mozilla Organization all along -- despite Mozilla Organization verbiage that Mozilla 1.0.x is supposed to be a long-lived branch. However, that is another story for another day. Meanwhile, please see the sidebar About the Mozilla Organization Verbiage to your right. - + +On the other hand, AOL-Time-Warner continues to base its Netscape 7 releases on Mozilla 1.0.x code. +The recently released Netscape 7.01 is based on pre-Mozilla-1.0.2 code. Now that Mozilla 1.1 has been released, there is not much use to using what now likely amounts to a quality-wise, technology-wise, and usability-wise outmoded Mozilla 1.0 or 1.0.1 builds. Mozilla Organization people claimed that Mozilla 1.1-beta was more stable and better than Mozilla 1.0.1. Moreover, Mozilla 1.1 was released before Mozilla 1.0.1 ever saw the light of day. @@ -172,9 +177,6 @@ Resources -Bugzilla Bug 167493 eHTMLTag_userdefined should be included as a valid head kid -Bugzilla Bug 182500 [1.2 branch] parser bugs due to bug 167493 -Bugzilla Bug 182506 MOZILLA_1_2_RELEASE is missing some checkins from MOZILLA_1_2_BRANCH Related Articles