| [News] Former Netscape Executive gives Amizilla a boost. | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 18-Dec-2003 08:51 GMT by Bill Panagouleas | 43 comments
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A former Netscape Executive (wants to remain anonymous for now) just
gave the AmiZilla project a $2000 boost. He is a long time Amiga user and still uses WinUAE and the Video Toaster Flyer a lot. He contacted me and wanted to match the $2000 I used to start the AmiZilla Project.
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| Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 18-Dec-2003 18:01 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (Don Cox):
Don Cox said,
> Do I remember rightly that this bounty was extended to cover any fully
> featured, up to date browser for Amiga? - not just a port of Mozilla.
Quoting from the site:
Peter Gordon said; "These funds should also be made available for the first person/team to get a browser with GOOD support for DHTML, XHTML, CSS, and a current version of Flash! That way we are giving the IBrowse, AWeb and Voyager teams an incentive." Should Peter's plan be put into action or should these funds stay reserved for Mozilla only? Make your voice heard send an e-mail to amizillafund AT discreetfx.com
So apparently it's been left up in the air. Obviously, tagging individual donations (especially as the whole site/fund-management project seems a little less than automated) for 'Gecko-only,' 'Full Moz,' or 'Any browser' would get a little fragmented... But it seems like any *open source* browser approaching the functionality of, say, Konqueror/Safari, would be A Hell of a Lot Better than what we have now, and a platform to potentially wedge all this wished-for Flash support into. (That requirement would seem to be a bit of a joykill for most developers... To support 'a current version of' Flash, you basically have to get Macromedia's blessing, or write an entire ABI wrapper to emulate a platform they *have* released Flash for...)
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My suggestion: Pick a stance, any stance (full Moz, any open-source browser, any browser at all...), and stick with it. If people don't agree, there's no reason someone else can't come along to host a related bounty for the alternate perspective (GPL-only or commercialware-included), and presumably a team working on the ziggurat that is full Moz would gain the possibility of cashing in on both. :) |
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