مصاحبه با رییس موزیلا در اروپا

[oxygenws]

Mozilla released the first beta for Firefox 3 a month ago, and the second beta on Tuesday. You can work on web applications offline with Firefox 3. Will this work for all web applications?

The Firefox 3 beta has an API that tells the web app that it's offline, so it can store things locally, and sync back later. This implies the web app knows how to leverage the API, so [if it doesn't] it has to be updated.

شما رو به خوندن کامل این مصاحبهء دو صفحه ای دعوت می کنم. چندین نکتهء جالب برای نکته سنجان داره :)

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39291344-1,00.htm

[ravanfar]

سلام
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Do you use Windows yourself?
I used to use Windows, but now I use a Mac.

Why did you change?
It was because of the end-user licence agreement [EULA] in XP Service Pack 2. When SP2 came out, I read the EULA, because it's a contract. If you click "I accept", you've effectively signed a contract that binds you to Microsoft. When you sign something you've got to read it [beforehand]. But what I saw was so creepy I couldn't click on the "I accept" button.

The EULA says that some files on your hard disk will be encrypted, and you won't have the key, and have to ask Microsoft
if you want to read the files. This is digital rights management. This is my computer, my copy of Windows, this is my data. I don't want any company, and not just Microsoft, to dictate what I do with my files.

Since then I've not used Windows on a regular basis. A computer is a fantastic tool for connecting to the internet. My whole life is in there — songs, movies, pictures, text, my blog posts. It links my friends through instant messaging and social networks. For many of us it would be impossible to work without a computer.

This is a tool I want to keep control of. I had the choice of either not updating Windows with SP2, which wouldn't have been secure, or not accepting the contract. So I moved to Linux, and when that machine died I switched to a Mac.
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جالبه

[max2004]

حالا میفهمم چرا این نسخه 2.0.0.11 اینقدر سریع اومد :


Let me give you a recent example. Ten days ago we released Firefox 2.0.0.10. When we released it a couple of hours later we found we'd introduced a regression, and that some website extensions were broken. We quickly decided to do another release, 2.0.0.11, which we released on Thursday night, three-and-a-half days later, which is a good turnaround. We don't like asking our users to update twice in a week, but we don't like regressions.