Comments on: Back to Basics Software Design http://banapana.com/uncategorized/back-to-basics-software-design This is your mind on media. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: D2W http://banapana.com/uncategorized/back-to-basics-software-design/comment-page-1#comment-34464 D2W Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:15:45 +0000 http://banapana.troped.com/?p=17#comment-34464 <p>Safari and Firefox share a common genesis - Blake Ross and David Hyatt. This is spelled out nicely in a recent <br>Wired Article. The following paragraph is a short excerpt on how they got started.<br><br>Then Ross, known to the Mozilla Foundation as just another precocious, diligent bug fixer, teamed up with Dave Hyatt, a former Netscape user interface programmer who now works for Apple Computer. In 2002, they announced they had "forked" the Mozilla code base, pulling out Mozilla's layout engine, called Gecko, and using a new user interface language, XUL. They posted a short manifesto proposing a tightly written piece of software called mozilla/browser. The goal was modest: no bloat. Inspired by Google's simple interface, they set out to build a stripped-down, stand-alone browser, a refutation of the feature creep that had grounded Netscape.</p> Safari and Firefox share a common genesis – Blake Ross and David Hyatt. This is spelled out nicely in a recent
Wired Article. The following paragraph is a short excerpt on how they got started.

Then Ross, known to the Mozilla Foundation as just another precocious, diligent bug fixer, teamed up with Dave Hyatt, a former Netscape user interface programmer who now works for Apple Computer. In 2002, they announced they had “forked” the Mozilla code base, pulling out Mozilla's layout engine, called Gecko, and using a new user interface language, XUL. They posted a short manifesto proposing a tightly written piece of software called mozilla/browser. The goal was modest: no bloat. Inspired by Google's simple interface, they set out to build a stripped-down, stand-alone browser, a refutation of the feature creep that had grounded Netscape.

]]> By: D2W http://banapana.com/uncategorized/back-to-basics-software-design/comment-page-1#comment-3 D2W Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:03:21 +0000 http://banapana.troped.com/?p=17#comment-3 <p>http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/firefox.html?pg=3</p> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.02/firefox.html?pg=3

]]> By: D2W http://banapana.com/uncategorized/back-to-basics-software-design/comment-page-1#comment-2 D2W Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:01:48 +0000 http://banapana.troped.com/?p=17#comment-2 <p>Safari and Firefox share a common genesis - Blake Ross and David Hyatt. This is spelled out nicely in a recent Wired Article. The following paragraph is a short excerpt on how they got started.</p> <p>Then Ross, known to the Mozilla Foundation as just another precocious, diligent bug fixer, teamed up with Dave Hyatt, a former Netscape user interface programmer who now works for Apple Computer. In 2002, they announced they had "forked" the Mozilla code base, pulling out Mozilla's layout engine, called Gecko, and using a new user interface language, XUL. They posted a short manifesto proposing a tightly written piece of software called mozilla/browser. The goal was modest: no bloat. Inspired by Google's simple interface, they set out to build a stripped-down, stand-alone browser, a refutation of the feature creep that had grounded Netscape.</p> Safari and Firefox share a common genesis – Blake Ross and David Hyatt. This is spelled out nicely in a recent Wired Article. The following paragraph is a short excerpt on how they got started.

Then Ross, known to the Mozilla Foundation as just another precocious, diligent bug fixer, teamed up with Dave Hyatt, a former Netscape user interface programmer who now works for Apple Computer. In 2002, they announced they had “forked” the Mozilla code base, pulling out Mozilla’s layout engine, called Gecko, and using a new user interface language, XUL. They posted a short manifesto proposing a tightly written piece of software called mozilla/browser. The goal was modest: no bloat. Inspired by Google’s simple interface, they set out to build a stripped-down, stand-alone browser, a refutation of the feature creep that had grounded Netscape.

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