I think work on Mozilla_The_Platform should finally start to evolve in a less haphazard, more mapped out fashion. XUL should be spec’ed and versioned and made truly usable (beyond Firefox). Fx development should not break XUL behaviour anymore. Mozilla developers should keep a public log/feed of breaking changes. XULRunner should become easy to configure for new projects.

Maybe Mozilla should even encourage a completely new project: an open source video codec.

thanks.

Originally I was a little disappointed when I heard about Firefox 3, because I thought Firefox 2 was “good enough”, and I wanted to see more focus on other Mozilla products – specifically Thunderbird/Sunbird.

However, after seeing the almost ridiculous amount of improvement Firefox 3 has, I stand corrected – it is a fantastic piece of work and the time was clearly well spent.

Of course, now it’s out, I’m defaulting back to my previous position, despite the fact I was almost criminally wrong to have it before – more focus on Thunderbird and Sunbird.

At the moment there are very few strong contenders in the open groupware world. Almost everything has to tie back into Outlook and/or Exchange, otherwise you just can’t use it. I’ve been searching for OSS replacements and there’s just nothing that compares to the “simplicity” of Exchange in terms of coming up with a great groupware solution that you can just plug in and have everyone use.

Thunderbird/Sunbird are on their way to competing – I’ve been following the nightly builds with great interest as the teams working on them appear to be really making great strides.

This is a little rambly, so I guess I’ll summarise – I think “open standards” aren’t just important on the web, but also any other number of Internet-connected applications/services. I think an improved focus on Mozilla offerings in the groupware space – building on and enhancing standards like CalDAV, creating killer clients, etc – will be the Next Big Thing for open standards and accessibility.

That’d be my vote, anyway