| Good god, that was INFURIATING. Let me summarize it: Dev 1: MNG sux, lol. It's like, 100kb of wasted space. Many Users: MNG is good, and the space is nothing! Dev 1: Oh...well, lol, I'm bored maintaining it. User: I wrote the library and I'll maintain it! Dev 1: Oh, lol. MNG sux, and you suck too. Just use Flash or gifs, k? Many Users: Those are proprietary and patent encumbered, and MNG has features they don't anyhow. This will break a ton of stuff, including the default theme! And MNGs are used a ton in Asia! Dev 1: ...whatever, lol. Only losers use MNG, and I'll make a new gif for the theme. Dev 2: Sounds good to me! Say goodbye to MNG support, losers. Dev 1: lol! Meanwhile, Firefox is still bloated, there's still a need for something like MNG, and Chrome is busy eating Firefox's lunch in large part because of the exact behaviour displayed on that bug. sigh It makes me want to slap the two people involved. That thread should be used in a textbook of "how open source projects become large, bloated, and end up being run into the ground via a concerted effort to annoy users and keep people from joining the dev team". I don't think I've ever seen such a concerted effort to try and discourage a potential maintainer and rip out perfectly working useful code before. |