Re: Awesome new Mozilla roadmap!

[Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in>]

I would have liked to see the embedding issues handled more clearly,
esp. what the plans are regarding the HTML editing widget that Mozilla
is using in the mail compose window and composer. Also, since
Mozilla.org is (apparantly) reducing priority for composer, it would be
nice to have good competetion in the WYSIWYG HTML editor area using the
mozilla HTML editing widget, like we currently have for the browsing
widget (Mozilla, Phoenix, Galeon, Epiphany, Skipstone, Camino and
KMeleon, to name a few).

> Mozilla Drivers [1],
> 
> Your new roadmap, and all of the rationale behind it, is terrific.
> 
> There has been a lot of discussion in the GNOME community recently about
> our
> choice of native browser, and whether we need to choose one at all, given
> Mozilla's ascendency.
> 
> The latest roadmap muddies those waters further by providing a clear path
> for native browser support (GRE), and a set of goals for Mozilla-internal
> browser development (Phoenix) that gel very well with GNOME's perspective
> of
> and approach to the Free Software desktop. Now it's a far more difficult
> argument! :-)
> 
> One issue that was not raised in the rationale or general goals of the
> roadmap was external integration and interoperability. Whether GNOME
> chooses
> ship its own browser or not, all of our mail/web/composer/calendaring/etc
> software should work together.
> 
> Mozilla will have to continue dealing with these issues across platforms,
> so
> I would strongly encourage the project to get involved with the Free
> Desktop
> Group <http://www.freedesktop.org/>, and move towards and propose "Free
> Software Desktop" standards, rather than integration with "GNOME", "KDE",
> etc. This will simplify the requirements on Mozilla's end, and fortify the
> benefits of our entire desktop offering - after all, Mozilla is a crucial
> element of the Free Software desktop application suite.
> 
> GNOME dudes, please have a look at the roadmap and send comments to the
> Mozilla Drivers (who are kind of like our release team, in that they are
> the
> project management group for Mozilla) about it:
> 
>   http://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> [1] That is such a cool name. ;)

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Biswa.