Route 66 by Caveman 92223
At Mozilla we’ve been talking recently about how important the web has become to everything around us. The web – and the Internet it’s built on – has become the defining computing platform for this century. And most of that has happened because of web developers, and the freedom they have enjoyed.
Firefox is one of the most important tools for web developers. Firebug combined with Firefox’s strong support for standards means that most web developers are building for Firefox first and then porting to other browsers later.
But even with developers using Firefox for development there hasn’t been an easy way for those of us at the Mozilla project to let you know about what’s going on at Mozilla – what we’re putting in Firefox, what we’re doing to bring the web forward and what we’re doing for web developers. (Although the hacks weblog is the first attempt at that.) And conversely there isn’t an obvious way for individual web developers to give Mozilla structured feedback about what’s important to them or what issues they might be having.
That’s why we’re working on the Mozilla Developer Network. It will serve two purposes:
- To provide you with information about what’s going on at Mozilla and around the web.
- To give you the chance to give us structured feedback and become part of the Mozilla Community.
Our first step is to do a quick survey. If we can get 5,000 responses to the survey, we’ll release the aggregate results.
The survey itself asks you about how you work, what you think of Firefox and should only take a few minutes to complete.
Thanks! We’ll have more on the Mozilla Developer Network as things progress.
Done. Thanks for this survey.
Survey done. Thanks.
Done too !
Nice. you got one responce at least, already.
That’s done
Done.
Will do it now =P
Cool, only 4,992 to go.
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Gee, I didn’t know that they were so troublesome on ships.
i did it… nice and short survey
Done!
Survey give, i am from India. Just woke up, seen the mail of Jay n given the survey. Thanks
Got the mail from Jay,n given the survey, i m from India.
Also given the survey link at DigitalPoint Forums
Nice little survey. Only take part if you are into developing the web.
Done the survey! Time to spread the word on belgian twitter!
Done!
Done with it…Sweet and Short survey
if we attach chat fecility with the browser it will be gud and attract peoples to use firefox…. as chat facility is included peoples can chat and browse in the same page …..
build a forum facility to discuss and share things btw the users….
this is my comment.. lets join and improve Mozilla….
Done too.
Done!
Done!!!!
Done with the survey!!
Done! Thanks for the Survey!
done
One issue I forgot to raise in the survey: the number one problem with contributing to Mozilla source is the lack of action on bug patches. I did a lot of work to create a patch and no one responded. So now I won’t make another patch. I’ve heard of lots of others with a similar experience. If the patch won’t be taken that’s fine, but not to reply is not.
quote: And conversely there isn’t an obvious way for individual web developers to give Mozilla structured feedback about what’s important to them or what issues they might be having.
yes, that’s very true. web developers have tried to give you feedback about design issues, through bug reports and through the mozdev forums; and it hasn’t worked, our feedback has frequently been disregarded. Something better is needed.
I am very glad to see that you are making this effort. It isn’t just the communications channel that is needed, there also has to be a *listener* on the other end. so far, many web devs have gotten a very negative impression about the availability of channel listeners. (an echo back responder is insufficient).
good luck with the survey, hopefully there won’t be 5000 “me too” comments added to this page.
by the way, given the negative tone of some of my comments (both here and in the survey), I think it important to say that:
**** Mozilla Firefox is a Splendiferous Browser!!!!!! ****
Done with the survey!!