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Nvu all that?
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
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Howdy all, I was recently checking out the mozilla.org blogs and there was a lot chatter about high profile (positive) reviews of the community's WYSIWYG html editor, Nvu. Now it might actually work decently on the PC, but on the Mac it flat out stinks. It's slow, the UI is a complete mess (the whole "UI as XML" has never worked well on the Mac) and most importantly, it's completely un-mac-like. Why the disparity? Is it that they don't have any good Mac coders or Mac designers? Is it that they don't care about the Mac? Who knows, but I find it very tiresome that a high profile OS project like Mozilla has such a hard time coming up with a Mac product that doesn't suck. Now I know you're saying, 'you code, you can fix it if you think it sucks so bad.' Well, the sad fact is, employers very much frown on people working on OS because of the dreaded GPL license. This basically eliminates 90%+ of Mac coders who could actually make a difference. So we're stuck with what we have today. A project with few developers, has a very slow development time, and a generally poor user experience on the Mac, sigh. That's not to say this problem is strictly related to Mozilla, but I think it exists with the vast majority of OS projects on the Mac, and perhaps with OS projects in general. Until someone can come up with a great way to make the almighty dollar while working on OS code, I'm afraid this will always be the case. cheers, will music: tori amos | the beekeeper comments posted at 8:13 PM Comments:Post a Comment |
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