Netscape Mercury
Jay Garcia
production on a new Netscape standalone mail / news application
"Netscape Mercury". It will be sourced from Thunderbird 2.0 and when
2.0.0.4 is released we'll coincide our updates accordingly. I don't know
the ETA or timeline at the moment. I'll keep everybody informed as
things progress and public announcements are able to be presented, etc.
Just so everybody is aware, the Netscape staff has been peeking in on
conversations concerning a mail / news app and gathering information on
wanted features and such. Stay tuned ................ thanks.
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Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
> For those interested, which should be the entire planet, we're beginning
> production on a new Netscape standalone mail / news application
> "Netscape Mercury".
whatever happened to the update to Net 7.2, which you said would happen
after Net 9.x came out? Has AOL still plans for that or has it been
scraped.
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Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
> Jay Garcia wrote:
>> For those interested, which should be the entire planet, we're beginning
>> production on a new Netscape standalone mail / news application
>> "Netscape Mercury".
>
>
> whatever happened to the update to Net 7.2, which you said would happen
> after Net 9.x came out? Has AOL still plans for that or has it been
> scraped.
>
I didn't say it would happen, I said it was under consideration. It
won't happen, not enough resources available to shift focus away from
future offerings. 2007 is not over yet, stay tuned.
Ron K.
called the control tower to announce :
Jay,
Is there any prognoses or road map for features that will differentiate
Mercury from Thunderbird?
I think you know the favorite NTMM/MTMM wish, a user friendly HTML composer.
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Ron K.
Don't be a fonted, it's just type casting
Ron Hunter
Any idea of new features they might include?
That is features in addition to those in TB?
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Ron Hunter rphu...@charter.net
Jay Garcia
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More than likely the first bits will mirror TB and then proceed to it's
own destiny of features and functions. I don't have the alpha yet for
testing, it's still in the hands of the programmer(s).
Jay Garcia
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Not yet Ron but I suspect it will mirror TB in the first bits and then
move on to it's own niche.
squaredancer
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Jay Garcia
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That's the usual idea as it was with NN 9. We have a really good,
responsible crew.
Ron K.
> On 12.06.2007 00:52, Ron K. wrote:
>
> --- Original Message ---
>
>
>> Star date 6/11/2007 11:16 PM by teletype, Thunderbird leader Jay Garcia
>> called the control tower to announce :
>>
>>> For those interested, which should be the entire planet, we're beginning
>>> production on a new Netscape standalone mail / news application
>>> "Netscape Mercury". It will be sourced from Thunderbird 2.0 and when
>>> 2.0.0.4 is released we'll coincide our updates accordingly. I don't know
>>> the ETA or timeline at the moment. I'll keep everybody informed as
>>> things progress and public announcements are able to be presented, etc.
>>> Just so everybody is aware, the Netscape staff has been peeking in on
>>> conversations concerning a mail / news app and gathering information on
>>> wanted features and such. Stay tuned ................ thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Jay,
>>
>> Is there any prognoses or road map for features that will differentiate
>> Mercury from Thunderbird?
>>
>> I think you know the favorite NTMM/MTMM wish, a user friendly HTML composer.
>>
>>
>
> More than likely the first bits will mirror TB and then proceed to it's
> own destiny of features and functions. I don't have the alpha yet for
> testing, it's still in the hands of the programmer(s).
>
>
Please keep the NTMM group on your announcement list as folks there can
help shake down MM bugs.
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T
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Jay Garcia
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> Thought you were one of the programmers?
Nope, just a liason and consultant to the staff of "programmers".
Gus Richter
Shouldn't that be a really good, responsible "canadian" crew? Or has
that changed?
Slow in following this and in general all the NG's lately or else I
would not have commented in NTMM re. this subject.
BTW, cut out this OT stuff or the marshall will delete and possibly ban!
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Gus
Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
Netscape 8 was contracted to Mercurial Communications of Canada. NN 9 is
a product by the new Netscape Staff in-house.
Gus Richter
Does this mean that AOL is now looking at a Netscape browser with a
restaffed dedicated Netscape crew, rather than an IE-based browser? Does
AOL have the rights to use IE6 only and not beyond?
You must have a Netscape tattoo, seeing as how you've stuck with them
for this long and through all of that.
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Gus
Jay Garcia
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It's the same "Netscape Division" of AOL with a new staff. Netscape is
"Netscape", not AOL or any of their other subsidiaries or others in
their stable, etc. The "mission" right now is to produce
Netscape-Branded products based on Mozilla-sourced applications - a
welcomed collabrative effort by both. NN 9 => Firefox 2.0.0.4 and
Mercury => Thunderbird 2.0 (2.0.0.4). We also maintain the Netscape.com
web site, etc. All except Netscape Web Mail which is maintained AND was
botched by AOL.
No tattoo, just a coffee mug and a Dev-Edge clock that still works. :-)
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
AOL had the right to use IE for 7 years without paying a dime. Perhaps
that agreement has run out. Maybe thats why they can't use IE in Net 9.
Jay Garcia
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We didn't use IE because it doesn't contain any Netscape/Mozilla code. :-D
Ron K.
After all these years you have finally admitted there was a second prize
in you box of 'Cracker Jacks'. Clocks are good, cups meed frequent
maintainance.
Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo
> On 15.06.2007 11:54, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>
> --- Original Message ---
>
>> AOL had the right to use IE for 7 years without paying a dime. Perhaps
>> that agreement has run out. Maybe thats why they can't use IE in Net 9.
>>
>
> We didn't use IE because it doesn't contain any Netscape/Mozilla code. :-D
>
yes, I know that. I was referring to the fact that Net 8 had IE in it.
I was just "assuming" that the AOL use of IE had expired, thats why it
wasn't put into Net 9.
Ron Hunter
> Jay Garcia wrote:
>> On 15.06.2007 11:54, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>>
>> --- Original Message ---
>>
>>> AOL had the right to use IE for 7 years without paying a dime.
>>> Perhaps that agreement has run out. Maybe thats why they can't use
>>> IE in Net 9.
>>>
>>
>> We didn't use IE because it doesn't contain any Netscape/Mozilla code.
>> :-D
>>
>
> yes, I know that. I was referring to the fact that Net 8 had IE in it.
> I was just "assuming" that the AOL use of IE had expired, thats why it
> wasn't put into Net 9.
>
Tab, simply uses the memory resident portion of IE which is available to
ALL applications running in Windows.
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Ron Hunter rphu...@charter.net
Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
> After all these years you have finally admitted there was a second prize
> in you box of 'Cracker Jacks'. Clocks are good, cups meed frequent
> maintainance.
Well, I would say pens as well but they're all non-functional, outta
ink. The coffee mug is the best, a Captain's Mug, wide rubber base,
non-skid. Got polo shirts too but too small now .. ugh.
Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
> Jay Garcia wrote:
>> On 15.06.2007 11:54, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>>
>> --- Original Message ---
>>
>>> AOL had the right to use IE for 7 years without paying a dime. Perhaps
>>> that agreement has run out. Maybe thats why they can't use IE in Net 9.
>>>
>>
>> We didn't use IE because it doesn't contain any Netscape/Mozilla code. :-D
>>
>
> yes, I know that. I was referring to the fact that Net 8 had IE in it.
> I was just "assuming" that the AOL use of IE had expired, thats why it
> wasn't put into Net 9.
>
No, NS 8 didn't have IE "in it" but rather a hook to the IE engine via
the Trident Plugin. In loose terminology one could say "in it" but NN 9
can do the same thing using the IETab extension which is a lot less
invasive. AOL has nothing to do with either. Disabling Trident is a bit
more difficult but IETab is much easier with the Uninstall in the
add-ons menu, much cleaner.
Jay Garcia
--- Original Message ---
> It didn't 'have IE in it', but rather does the same thing as FF with IE
> Tab, simply uses the memory resident portion of IE which is available to
> ALL applications running in Windows.
Not quite, NS 8 uses the Trident Plugin TRIDENT.DLL and is a lot more
invasive that IETab. I use IETab in NN 9 a lot better.
squaredancer
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> On 15.06.2007 11:54, Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote:
>
> --- Original Message ---
>
>
>> AOL had the right to use IE for 7 years without paying a dime. Perhaps
>> that agreement has run out. Maybe thats why they can't use IE in Net 9.
>>
>>
>
> We didn't use IE because it doesn't contain any Netscape/Mozilla code. :-D
>
>
reg