On Wednesday 27 October 2004 09:30 am, D. Joe Anderson wrote:
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 04:47:40PM -0500, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:
[Microsoft] did do a ground-up rewrite of the mosaic code for their second release of Internet Explorer - something that would be a vast improvement if Mosaic were to do the same, especially with modern considerations and security. There are still bugs in Mozilla that I recognise from very early releases of Mosaic.
Isn't that what Firefox is about?
I don't think so. From what I understand it's just regular Mozilla that's been stripped of some "features" and cleaned up a lot. Not a ground-up rewrite.
This is PC code that dates back to 1992. Mozilla has never gone through and integrated all the accumulated cruft, or re-written the code that says "if 2+2=5 the answer=4". The patches that fix patches that fix problems that are still in the code are still in the code.