Over at Slashdot they're running an interview with Mozilla VP of Products Chris Beard about Firefox 2. The good thing about Slashdot's interviews is that the questions are chosen by the readers. Coincidentally, that's also the bad thing about Slashdot's interviews, because it means time gets wasted on questions like, "How was the cake from MS?" Anyway, it's not a terrible interview. Beard answers questions on Firefox's rendering speed as compared to IE7's ("we test every nightly build to make sure that we're getting faster, not slower than our previous releases"), standards and compatibility with IE ("We do our best to match IE's behavior. But we also realize that trying to be bug-for-bug compatible with IE is a dead end"), feature bloat ("Our community is surprisingly conservative, and we ask ourselves a lot of tough questions about whether or not a feature is really needed and used by a majority of users before we add it into Firefox."), and more. With Firefox's future growth uncertain in the face of IE7 and Vista, the interview is an interesting read.Mozilla developers interviewed on Firefox 2
Over at Slashdot they're running an interview with Mozilla VP of Products Chris Beard about Firefox 2. The good thing about Slashdot's interviews is that the questions are chosen by the readers. Coincidentally, that's also the bad thing about Slashdot's interviews, because it means time gets wasted on questions like, "How was the cake from MS?" Anyway, it's not a terrible interview. Beard answers questions on Firefox's rendering speed as compared to IE7's ("we test every nightly build to make sure that we're getting faster, not slower than our previous releases"), standards and compatibility with IE ("We do our best to match IE's behavior. But we also realize that trying to be bug-for-bug compatible with IE is a dead end"), feature bloat ("Our community is surprisingly conservative, and we ask ourselves a lot of tough questions about whether or not a feature is really needed and used by a majority of users before we add it into Firefox."), and more. With Firefox's future growth uncertain in the face of IE7 and Vista, the interview is an interesting read.
