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Post by Red Squirrel »

MS should use this as an example, mozilla is only 1 year old and yet is many times better then IE!

Time flies when you're having fun.

It's already been a year since the Mozilla Foundation was created, and it's been quite a year. The Mozilla Foundation has prospered, our products are receiving rave reviews, consumer and enterprise interest in Mozilla products is at an all time high, the awareness of the importance of choice in browser software is growing and our community remains vigorous and energetic.

The Mozilla project has long been an open source technology leader. With our new Firefox and Thunderbird products, we are now focusing on bringing a better Internet experience to millions of new users.

There have been many highlights for the Mozilla Foundation this year:

    * We've built a potent development team to lead continued innovation. Our small team is built entirely of veterans with many years of experience in the Mozilla project.
    * We turned our attention to the end user for the first time, after years of being solely a technology project. The result: Firefox (for browsing) and Thunderbird (for email). 1.0 launches for both products are now just a few months away. To help end users we've started offering CDs (we ship more than 5000 CDs for every new release!), telephone support and Mozilla wares (our new tshirts are proving to be a big hit). With help from David Shea and others, we've also given our web site a make-over.
    * Our friends in Europe have created Mozilla Europe, a non-profit organization that's working to promote Mozilla throughout the continent. Similar efforts are now underway in other parts of the world.
    * We continue to innovate. Just a few weeks ago, the Mozilla Foundation spearheaded an announcement with Macromedia, Apple, Opera, Sun Microsystems and Adobe to deliver a richer plugin experience. Mozilla engineers are active participants in the WHAT Working Group, a collaborative effort with Opera and Apple engineers to bring innovation to web forms and other parts of the web.
    * US CERT, a division of the US Department of Homeland Security, recently recommended that Internet Explorer users switch to a different browser to avoid dangerous security exploits affecting IE. Secunia, a leading third party security firm, also recommends using another browser.

The results?

    * 5.5 million downloads of Mozilla products in the last 30 days, including over 3 million downloads of Mozilla Firefox. That's close to 200,000 downloads a day over the last month.
    * More than 300 million page views on our web site for the year. This month alone, an estimated 10 million visitors have come to mozilla.org - and we're just halfway into the month.
    * Growing buzz for Firefox, with more than 20,000 web sites linking to the Firefox product page!

Most importantly, the tide is finally beginning to turn: after years of increasing monopolization of the web browser market, Mozilla-based browsers (browsers based on the Gecko rendering engine, that is) are now gaining modest but noticeable market share. Both Web Side Story and OneStat.com, leading web analytics firms, confirm this trend.

All of this terrific news wouldn't have been possible without help from lots of individuals and organizations. The Mozilla Foundation is a small organization (we employ just a dozen people), but we have lots of friends and contributors:

    * Financial assistance from AOL, IBM, Sun Microsystems and Mitch Kapor allowed us to launch the Foundation last year.
    * IBM, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat and others employ dozens of engineers who dedicate their full time energy to the Mozilla Foundation.
    * MozillaZine has become a lively hub for Mozilla news, community feedback and end user support.
    * MozDev is home to hundreds of extensions and other projects that keep Mozilla on the leading edge.
    * Close to 4000 individuals have donated almost $10,000 per month to the Mozilla Foundation.
    * The Visual Identity Team has done an amazing job on the Firefox and Thunderbird logos and default themes - and they're not done yet!
    * MozSource, the company that operates the Mozilla Store, ships thousands of CDs and Mozilla merchandise every month, processes a good chunk of the donations coming to the Mozilla Foundation, and is now sponsoring SilverOrange to improve the Mozilla web site. SilverOrange is also doing a lot of this work on a volunteer basis.
    * Most importantly: the thousands of hackers and testers who participate in producing great software.

What's next? Firefox and Thunderbird 1.0 - just around the corner. But don't wait. Download the preview releases today and help spread the word. And if you prefer to go with a proven, mature Internet suite that's been around for years, make sure to download Mozilla 1.7.

Help us take back the web!

- The Mozilla Team
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/ar...ies_when_1.html
http://www.mozilla.org

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Hope Microsoft does take notice of this indeed, and I hope they make a better browser (particularly wish that all the browser makers would get together, and chat about CSS. Once that gets squared away, I'll be a happy web design intern :lol:)

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Haha true. so they at least stay up to standards with css and make things the same. The worse is color defaults. For example if you leave a border color out, in mozilla it's black, but in IE it's white... stuff like that should definatly be standardlized more.

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Post by Chris Vogel »

sintekk wrote: particularly wish that all the browser makers would get together, and chat about CSS.
Major browser makers do get together to chat about CSS. :) Opera, the Mozilla Foundation, Microsoft, etc. are all members of the W3C. :)

Mozilla software itself is older than 1 year, but in that one year of being under the Mozilla Foundation, it has gotten pretty far, especially Firefox… :)

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Alright, I wish they'd get together and stick to the conventions they made :lol:
I know about the W3C, I go there all the time for CSS help, but the CSS style sheets I make never seem to look right in all browsers unless you use workarounds. I hate workarounds :lol:

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I tend to ingore IE when I code, sometimes it works,sometimes it looks horrible,but still, I ingore it. (and put a notice to use a real browser P)

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I can't afford to do that, cause I work for an e-commerce company that simply has to peddle to the lowest common denominator, which is a shame, cause at home I design for firefox.

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