[ Thanks to jaime for
this link. ]
“Mozilla is an unlikely candidate for a comeback, given that it
is barely sliding out of the box.“But a comeback is exactly what the open-source project hopes to
pull off in the next few weeks, when the Netscape
Communications-backed effort releases the first official version of
its Web browser. After four years in development, the pending event
has renewed excitement in a project that once was hailed as a
possible Microsoft killer–only to tumble into obscurity after
lengthy delays.“The milestone itself is something of a fiction, representing a
minor improvement over previous Mozilla browser versions–and one
that will be quickly outstripped. The development team routinely
turns out new “builds” every few weeks. Mozilla.org, the group
steering the browser’s development, debated the merits of setting a
Mozilla 1.0 version at all. Ultimately, however, it decided the
step is an important concession to attracting third-party
developers that could create applications based on its
technology…”