Asa blogged about the new Reporter tool, and got comments like “Another feature nicked from Opera. Sigh.”
Can we call it a day on such pointless posturing? Opera had some cool features first, we had other cool features first, and the same for Safari, Konqueror and IE. I don’t care who invented it; if it’s useful to the userbase of your browser, you should be able to include it. User interfaces haven’t been copyrightable since Apple vs. Microsoft, and I would hope no-one in the browser market would stoop so low as to sue another browser manufacturer for software patent infringement. Copying someone else is a sign of respect, not weakness – it means they got it right, and you want to acknowledge that.
> Copying someone else is a sign of respect, not weakness – it means they got it right, and you want to acknowledge that.
If you want to acknowledge that then do acknowledge that. And do pretend being the first to implement something which is built into an other browser for years: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/007992.html
“Can we call it a day on such pointless posturing”
Who do you mean by “we”? the Opera fans commenting on Mozilla-related blogs and forums? the Firefox fans ? The Mozilla folks doing advocacy (e.g. Asa, Blake) in Mozilla places? The Firefox fans commenting on the IE blogs? The world in general?
In any case, I would imagine the answer is “no”.
Maybe you guys should automatically reject any blog comments which mention Opera :). It�s indeed getting a bit tiresome.
~Grauw
I thought it was counterproductive to have such a viewpoint before you thought it was counterproductive.
(You know, this would have been even funnier if I actually had a post on my blog I could point to.) :-)
Visitor: I don’t think the blogpost you reference shows Asa claiming we invented spatial navigation.
michaell: all the places where users of one browser pop up when another browser acquires a feature and says “well, we got it first, so nyer nyer”.
From your related news :
> Man, there’s no pleasing some people. People can’t seem to request tabs enough
> when asked “what features do you miss from IE”, but when they are actually told
> that tabs will be there, they say “we don’t care about tabs, what about
> standards?!”
> Sure, I want to hear about standards support as well, but that’s not what this
> post is about! This post is about tabs support in IE, and I think it’s great!
ROFL
yep, and you are first man, who write about this :)) Opera fans will be second ;)
Speaking of that, could you guys steal draggable tabs back from Epiphany already? Or is that actually present by now?
Hehe. Opera rocks ;)