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SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta released![[logo]](/images/tl/seamonkey64.png)
The SeaMonkey project, which aims to continue maintenance and development
of the Mozilla software suite, has had little visibility recently. But
that does not mean they have not been busy; the first 1.0 beta has been announced.
"SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta features more than just a state-of-the-art web
browser, though: the application comes with a powerful email client as well
as a WYSIWYG web page composer and a feature-rich IRC chat application. For
web developers, mozilla.org's DOM inspector and JavaScript debugger tools
are included as well." The final release is expected in January.(Log in to post comments)
Still no mailing lists in search folders Posted Dec 20, 2005 23:57 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] If only SeaMonkey Mail supported filtering by mailing lists in search folders, I would dump my Firefox/Evolution setup in no time. Having an integrated tool makes sense for my purposes, but mail support has always been a weak side of the Mozilla products (for my needs, that is).
Still no mailing lists in search folders Posted Dec 23, 2005 13:16 UTC (Fri) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link] Hmm, what sort of filtering/tool would you wish for? Can you describe the functions you need or point us to some docs/screenshots/whatever describing what you'd want for us? We have some mail developers being very fond of the SeaMonkey suite and willing to throw some time into good new features, maybe this one could be one of them (BTW, porting Thunderbird's RSS functions to SeaMonkey Mail is planned for the near future, we already have a patch in circulation).
The reason why I'm asking for more specifics is that I pointed one of our mail devs to your comment and he didn't understand your issue, pointing to filtering by header or whatever and creating virtual folders... With some better pointer to specifics you'd like to see, perhaps someone will work on them (no promise though, you probably know OSS dynamics yourself)...
Robert Kaiser
SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta released Posted Dec 21, 2005 0:06 UTC (Wed) by bk (guest, #25617) [Link] I guess I don't really understand why they're going backward with their version numbering.
"Seamonkey" is the Mozilla Suite renamed/rebranded and managed under a different, nominally independent group. Last I knew, the Mozilla Suite was at version 1.7.x. Going back to sub-1.0 indicates that the code is less mature than it is.
SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta released Posted Dec 21, 2005 3:06 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] Nightly builds use version 1.6a1, which is also backwards, but not so much. I guess Mozilla Corp. dictates the conditions, and they obviously don't want Seamonkey to be seen as a competitor to Firefox and Thunderbird.
SeaMonkey 1.0 Beta released Posted Dec 23, 2005 13:08 UTC (Fri) by KaiRo (subscriber, #1987) [Link] Well, for one, the Mozilla Foundation told us if we (as a new team) take over the project, we need to 1) chose a different name than "Mozilla", 2) need to use different versioning than Mozilla Application Suite (i.e. the release that would have been Mozilla 1.8 under their governing _must_ have some other version number than "1.8"). Both are needed so that for users, there is a clear distinction between Mozilla-Foundation-governed "Mozilla [Application Suite]" releases and SeaMonkey-Council-governed "SeaMonkey" releases.
As it's a new project (and we need time to mature as such), a new team driving the project and application development, we decided to start all over with a 1.0 version as first release (of course with alpha and beta versions before final, as usual). The Gecko version number one can see in the user agent string is still 1.8 though, the same as you see in the Firefox 1.5 UA string.
That step is not unparalleled, as e.g. Firefox and Thunderbird stepped "back" in their version numbers from the 1.7.x suite to do their respective 1.0 versions about a year ago. And Linux users, as we all are here, should be used to have differently versioned parts of their apps all over the system anyways ;-)
As a side note, Firefox will very likely stay ahead of us in version numbering, as they're working on 2.0 (based on Gecko 1.8.1) and 3.0 (based on Gecko 1.9) in parallel, while we'll be more conservative in version updates, developing SeaMonkey 1.1 and 1.5 from those two strings of development.
Robert Kaiser
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