Flock: a flop?

The guys involved on the Flock project have released their first preview for developers by sharing the binaries and the source code.

Flock is a project started from the guys involved on the Mozilla project and it wants to be something like a new browser, with better RSS support, support for services such as Flickr, Del.icio.us, WordPress, TypePad, or Google’s Blogger etc.

My first question after seeing this is why the Mozilla Team is so forked... we have a lot of browsers built on top of Mozilla's platform (Camino and Netscape for example, only to mention the famous), so why starting the Flock project? Why not working for an extension in Firefox for example?

I've see that the staff has a response about this, but I'm not so sure that this is the right road. The browser's world is full now and I think it's better to unify the forces for a better browser than starting lots of different projects. However, we'll see what happens with Flock in the future...

Print | posted on Friday, October 21, 2005 3:20 PM

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