6/16/2003 08:16:00 PM
I just flew in from Chicago and boy are my arms tired!
Actually, I rolled in last night a little after 1 am. I didn't even start trying to catch up on MozillaZine until I got to work today. I was afraid that it would take me hours just to read all of the threads. Other than the General group, I don't think any of them went past one page. Most of the threads didn't even interest me. It makes me wonder what the heck I've been doing that has gotten me past 4000 posts. I guess a big chunk of the postings are re-hashing of old topics (ie. allowing a webpage to skin the scrollbar).
I believe that I used to be against it. Although they currently pick up the OS widget appearance, when it comes to viewing web pages, I think I view them more as part of the content than the browser. Perhaps it's the abuse of the decoration that too many websites use.
After much cajoling, David Tenser now has a mozblog on MozillaZine. I plan to prune a few of the ones I already have on my website due to lack of postings. That doesn't mean I will never read them again, but I no longer feel the need to point readers towards them. Asa, Hixie, and Eric will remain, but now djst will be among them. You can keep track of MozBlog updates at the website of Henrik Gemal.
Perhaps you've read about the joining of forces to have a single database for links to Mozilla Seamonkey/Firebird/Thunderbird extensions and themes. We're still tossing around ideas. I don't want to force the bandwidth load on mozdev.org. That's not fair to them. But I don't know what kind of political weight it will take to get it hosted on mozilla.org. Asa seems like the most likely person to put in a good word. If you want to see the benefits of a centralized database, have a look at ExtensionRoom and ExtensionManager. Besides the location of the database, there are lingering questions about the hosting of Mozilla Firebird Help and the programming language to use.
