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Mozilla M18 released

Posted on October 13, 2000

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by Martin Burns (MartinB)

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You can get it at the mozilla site. Although there is no mention whether this is the expected beta release, this is to be the last M numbered milestone. According to the roadmap, the new plan is to move from M numbers to version numbers, starting with mozilla0.6 later this year, and mozilla1.0 roughly due Q2 2001.

Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.

Amongst his favourite things is ZopeDrupal, which he uses to run his personal site. He's starting to (re)gain a sneaking regard for ECMAscript since the arrival of unobtrusive scripting.

He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.

Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?

Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?

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Submitted by jaylard on October 13, 2000 - 10:37.

My initial tests suggest that Mozilla M18 (build 20001010) is largely unchanged from the build on which Netscape 6 PR3 is based (20000929). Many of the basic problems that I saw with PR3 continue with M18, namely: Java doesn't work, even after an explicit attempt to download the plug-in (although it began working at some later date for me under PR3 -- perhaps a reboot is required?); the :hover pseudo-class does not work; responsiveness of image rollovers has been improved from M17, but is still a touch slow and occasionally displays artifacts; additionally, proxy support seems to have suffered a setback, as Mozilla tends to forget usernames and passwords that it has been instructed to remember, and sometimes seems to prompt for them repeatedly.

On the plus side: The interface is identical to that of PR3, with the new, sportier brushed-blue-chrome look; the browser is generally stable enough to be used for normal browsing (although, IMO, is not quite ready to be the primary browser, except for the Netscape faithful :) ; and its march toward standards-compliance continues to show great promise and to bear some tasty fruit.

Admittedly, I am a bit taken aback by the Q2 2001 target date for rtm, and am not quite clear on how Netscape 6 will hit rtm long before Mozilla does, but then I have only briefly glanced at the Mozilla roadmap.

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