On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 08:49:17PM -0500, Richard Campbell wrote:
If internet explorer were a 'mistake' it wouldn't have a 92% user base. If it isn't working, people wouldn't use it. It took quite a long time for a worthy competitor (firefox) to appear. Anyways, cloning internet explorer is outside the scope of this project. It may BE a part of windows, but we can install it (IE5 at least) seperately (eventually).
What the user base is depends on who you ask. Nobody appears to have irrefutable up-to-date figures. And do you describe a program that CERT advises people not to use as "works"?
But lets not argue over this. My reason for posting my commments is simply because I think some of us are only aiming at implementing a clone whereas I feel we should be striving to create a compatible OS that is even better, and I get the impression from the faq on the wiki site that was one of the reasons for this project's existence.
But on the other hand that risks becoming bogged down in discussion about how things should be done. If at the end of the day we end up with nothing more than an open source clone of Windows that I can hack on I will still be happy.
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barry day