Thus, the cost of upgrading will be trivial compared with the version 4.0 browsers. Meanwhile a Norwegian company was making waves with a small, fast browser called Opera. We were looking at Opera as what we should be doing. Mozilla is concerned about size and performance. People need DOM and CSS support.
Opera is our benchmark for speed and size.
Because of the modular interface, we can script all components, which allows us to incrementally update. In an editorial on the Mozilla site, evangelist Jamie Zawinski argues Mozilla was never simply a browser for Netscape, but rather is an open browser development effort. AOL may choose to fund the project, as Netscape has, or not. They may choose to use the open source browser on their service, or not. But in any case, Zawinksi says, the open source browser is not going away.