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Entry text: [quote="MarkC"][quote="Colby Russell"]Really? You think Mozilla is less focused on the platform now than they were a few years ago? Remember that the Camino guys got pretty bitter about Mozilla back then. You think it's worse now, even with stuff like decent standalone XULRunner?[/quote] I never meant that they were particularly good in the past - just that they were making the sort of noises that implied that they _wanted_ other people to use the XUL platform for other applications. These days you don't even get that: Mozilla has only one product, and anything else is just a side-effect of that. The platform doesn't figure at all, other than as a means to create Firefox. I'm delighted that there's a decent standalone XULRunner, and Prism makes it much easier for us to sell our remote-XUL solution to corporate customers who flinch at the suggestion that they'll have to install Firefox. But they both strike me as being a historical side-effect of the build process, rather than something which Mozilla actively promote and encourage the use of. What I think it needs - at least to start with - is for someone to be employed within Mozilla whose role is to support platform users. By that I mean helping to foster a community, but also providing some internal pressure to fix some of the more obvious platform issues, even if they don't directly affect Firefox. Hopefully a little more attention to the platform might encourage some of the third-party platform consumers to start contributing a bit more themselves.[/quote]
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