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Now that we can actually promote the use of Mozilla and not conflict with the goals of the Mozilla Project, EvangelMoz will get up and running again real soon now.
(The site is yet to be updated, but the mailing list is running…)
And from the list comes this interesting page from the University of Washington on why you might want to switch browsers.
We here are Rasterboy Enterprises use HTML-Template for many things. We’ve found it a good templating language. It’s simple, and does one thing very well, rather than try to do everything, and not succeed at any. Oh, it’s also extremely easy to install, unlike other template toolkits I won’t mention the name of…
While we’ve only used the Perl version, HTML-Template is available for the following languages:
So the next time you’re looking to fulfill your templating needs, check out HTML-Template, even if you use one of those silly language that isn’t Perl.
(Where’s the ASP and ColdFusion versions?)
I had one more AOL/Netscape/Mozilla thought. Let’s for a moment assume AOL is planning ahead. They know that they can use IE as their browser for the next 7 years or so, but want to plan ahead anyway. Initially, the thought was that AOL would keep Netscape/Mozilla around as insurance, so that they could switch to some Gecko-based browser at any time. Now that Netscape has been killed, and Mozilla set free, how has that changed? AOL can still create a Gecko-based browser anytime they want, using the current Mozilla code, and since they no longer employ people working on Mozilla code, they save money that way. They are contributing $2 million and other services to the Mozilla Foundation, but that’s all deductible, as the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit group. And guess what? Other companies (Sun, IBM, Red Hat, are contributing money towards Mozilla as well, which would not happen if Mozilla was under AOL’s control.
So what’s the big loss here? Well, the Netscape brand will go away. Honestly it had more or less gone away long ago. Perhaps AOL knows that the Netscape brand doesn’t hold what it used to. (Of course this could all be AOL’s fault I guess.) Now, Mozilla could be the new brand, in some yet-to-be-determined name. With the death of standalone IE, and the end of Netscape, Mozilla appears to be the #1 freely available, cross-platform browser. (I’m not counting Opera as free, though I suppose it’s free ‘as in beer’ if you don’t mind the ads.)
So does it come down to marketing? If you take your average everyday user, someone who has used IE bacause that’s all they’ve ever known, and install Mozilla for them, and walk them through the features, and explain why they might enjoy using it more than IE, do you think they’ll go back to IE? I think if I had to come up with a good catch phrase for Mozilla it would be Smart People use Mozilla, or something like that, because while 90% or more of the general web users might use IE, well over 90% of the people I respect and admire seem to use Mozilla…
Well, that’s enough semi-coherent rambling for one day… More tomorrow!
Read Anil’s idea for Mozilla, Google, etc… It might make one of those little light bulbs above your head light up.