Subject Re: [Firebird-general] Re: So much for Mozilla dropping Firebird
Author Mark O'Donohue
Hi Brendan

brendaneich wrote:
> --- In Firebird-general@yahoogroups.com, "brendaneich" <brendan@m...>
> wrote:
>
> I wanted to let you all know that mozilla.org will rename Mozilla
> Firebird as soon as possible. The renaming won't happen before the
> Mozilla Firebird 0.7 release due this month.
>

That certainly is welcome news!

When do you intend to make that news public? Or at least more widely
known within your own community.

At that time I think we would like to put up something on our site,
thanking moz staff for appreciating our situation, and indicating that
were satisfied with the outcome.

>
> In view of a forthcoming Firebird newsreader mentioned by Alexander V.
> Nevsky, I wonder whether we could some day have a Firebird web browser
> that uses the Firebird database code (for history, cache, other
> metadata) in combination with the Mozilla browser and Gecko layout
> engine code. Such a browser would be a first-class db browser, too,
> of course. Just a thought,
>

One of the advantages of fb is it's ability to embed fairly
transparently into end user applications - so you never know.


Cheers

Mark