AlbertPacino
Explorer
Roblimo: I shouldn't wonder. Well there's a question, let's start off here with one that wasn't the first one and I don't even know if it made the final cut. But people... several wanted to know what browser do you use yourself? (Mitchell laughs) Do you use... which version of Explorer?
Mitchell: I use Firefox.
Roblimo: You don't use Explorer?
Mitchell: I don't use Explorer. In fact I really see Explorer... I actually used the Mozilla application suite for quite some time, far longer than many people. And eventually, since our development focus was here on Firefox, I thought I really ought to be a Firefox user as well.
Roblimo: Well, I don't disagree with you. I use it myself. That leads us into the question: What will be the testbed -- that comes from a reader who calls himself Ars-Farsica (laughter) -- his question is, or her question, we don't know, "Now that the Moz suite is apparently non-official, how will new code be tested? Will there be some sort of 'beta' Firefox release for testing? Or a new very minimal piece of code that is a testbed yet not useful to consumers?"
Mitchell: Oh, that's a good question. Let me give a little bit of background first because sometimes those of us who are deep in the project tend to use... just assume contacts that not everyone has. So the name Mozilla, or Mozilla 1.8 or 1.7 or 1.0, 1.4 has always had many different meanings and that's been confusing. So sometimes it just meant the Mozilla code base, sometimes it meant the application suite, sometimes it meant the platform underneath, and we have... we've been working in the last year or so to try and clear up that confusion and we still have... we've made some progress and we have some work to do. So when we have said Mozilla 1.0 or Mozilla 1.4, 1.7, that actually applies to two different things. One is the application layer, you know, the set of user... the things that the user sees and the user interface and the kinds of interactions that the user can have with the program.
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Nice interview.
Mitchell: I use Firefox.
Roblimo: You don't use Explorer?
Mitchell: I don't use Explorer. In fact I really see Explorer... I actually used the Mozilla application suite for quite some time, far longer than many people. And eventually, since our development focus was here on Firefox, I thought I really ought to be a Firefox user as well.
Roblimo: Well, I don't disagree with you. I use it myself. That leads us into the question: What will be the testbed -- that comes from a reader who calls himself Ars-Farsica (laughter) -- his question is, or her question, we don't know, "Now that the Moz suite is apparently non-official, how will new code be tested? Will there be some sort of 'beta' Firefox release for testing? Or a new very minimal piece of code that is a testbed yet not useful to consumers?"
Mitchell: Oh, that's a good question. Let me give a little bit of background first because sometimes those of us who are deep in the project tend to use... just assume contacts that not everyone has. So the name Mozilla, or Mozilla 1.8 or 1.7 or 1.0, 1.4 has always had many different meanings and that's been confusing. So sometimes it just meant the Mozilla code base, sometimes it meant the application suite, sometimes it meant the platform underneath, and we have... we've been working in the last year or so to try and clear up that confusion and we still have... we've made some progress and we have some work to do. So when we have said Mozilla 1.0 or Mozilla 1.4, 1.7, that actually applies to two different things. One is the application layer, you know, the set of user... the things that the user sees and the user interface and the kinds of interactions that the user can have with the program.
More on this interview can be read at the source here You also have the option of downloading and listening to an MP3 of the phone conversation itself.
Nice interview.