The moral of the story is probably that when you have a team working on a product, make sure that your best and brightest minds are allowed to work on the product instead of having to prove their religious fervor to the cultish management team. Don probably could have saved the product if it hadn't been waylaid by a bunch of open source and CSS fanatics who wanted to code a Nirvana in which every last friggin' part of the application was specified by CSS and which you didn't really have to do anything to to get it to run on another platform. Me, I probably would have said screw all of this, let's just concentrate on a small portable HTML rendering engine and write two front ends to it, one for X and one for Win32. Would've been easier, would've been faster, would've been useful. As it winds up now, all we have is a few tiny, nearly irrelevant browsers [Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Safari] and IE. Ah well.
In which Gramps went on Safari.
The moral of the story is probably that when you have a team working on a product, make sure that your best and brightest minds are allowed to work on the product instead of having to prove their religious fervor to the cultish management team. Don probably could have saved the product if it hadn't been waylaid by a bunch of open source and CSS fanatics who wanted to code a Nirvana in which every last friggin' part of the application was specified by CSS and which you didn't really have to do anything to to get it to run on another platform. Me, I probably would have said screw all of this, let's just concentrate on a small portable HTML rendering engine and write two front ends to it, one for X and one for Win32. Would've been easier, would've been faster, would've been useful. As it winds up now, all we have is a few tiny, nearly irrelevant browsers [Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Safari] and IE. Ah well.
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