Mozilla as a social moment of the open web

Some reflection from recent MozTW offline events and PCHome magazine interview we gave:

The web applications and the browsers will become the so-called “the cloud computing” environment, where everything you wrote, song, and filmed are stored and shared between people. Every piece of information will be interconnected.

That’s what the trend had told me, from big things like Google building a browser, to small everyday things like identities and information being shared and transfered between websites.

Here is what Bob said when he heard that from me (well, not the exact words of course, since I am writing it down here in English):

If this is the trend, then the the role of Mozilla Foundation is to make sure what we believed in will be deeply embedded  into that future. The believes, like the web should be build upon open standards; identities should be decentralized; the information and the wisdom within should be easily preservable and sharable with the consent of the authors; etc.

Mozilla is a foundation that runs a software company, and a social moment of the open web.

Wow. Being a small contributer to the Firefox software, I never pictured so clearly this is what we do stands for. Glad to be one of us.

Mozilla, the social moment of open web. And they have plans… the fraking robots.

IE6 on the way out

application_icon_ie.png來自 Ajaxian 的消息,IE6 的佔有率正式小於 20% 。從 Net Applications 的數據看來,IE 整體的佔有率也第一次小於 70%。

不過根據某個我拿得到的可信數據,在台灣 IE6 的佔有率大約還是有 26%,而且那個網頁還有在剛進去的時候寫「您使用的瀏覽器是舊版,可能會有問題」的警告… 「可信」當然不是指這個 blog,畢竟這裡是 Firefox 相關站 (笑)。

看到這個數據,我也想要說「I won’t support IE6 in 2009」!去年底的時候寫 app 才卡在某個拖曳的問題許久,Fx 可以用發現 IE7 不能用,IE7 修完發現 IE6 不能用 …

倒是,要怎麼跟一般使用者表達希望你趕快換掉 IE6 這件事情呢?如果是用 PCMan 或是 KKman 的話,換掉對使用也完全沒有影響呀。這到底要怎麼解釋(Open PCMan 在啟動的時候檢查丟警告XD?)害我很認真的除了推 Firefox 還想要推薦 IE7 …