Skrivet av Damodred:
Mozilla inte ansåg sig kunna skapa en webbläsare som kunde konkurrera med IE11.
Varför inte quota vad MOZILLA faktiskt sagt, istället för vad en skribent på ZDnet tyckt?
In late 2012, when I started up the Firefox for Metro team (I know that’s not what Microsoft calls it anymore, but it remains how we talk about it in Mozilla), it looked like the next battleground for the Web. Windows is a massive ecosystem and Microsoft pushes its new platforms hard. At first, it looked like we would be locked out completely. We eventually broke open Metro (though never the RT line of ARM-based products) and we got to work.
In the months since, as the team built and tested and refined the product, we’ve been watching Metro’s adoption. From what we can see, it’s pretty flat. On any given day we have, for instance, millions of people testing pre-release versions of Firefox desktop, but we’ve never seen more than 1000 active daily users in the Metro environment.
- - - When I talk about the need to pick our battles, this feels like a bad one to pick: significant investment and low impact.
Instead, we pull it. This opens up the risk that Metro might take off tomorrow and we’d have to scramble to catch back up, but that’s a better risk for us to take than the real costs of investment in a platform our users have shown little sign of adopting.
Update on Metro, Johnathan Nightingale
I sammanfattning så gjorde Microsoft det med flit svårt för andra webläsare att köra under Metro, och eftersom så få kör Metro-program var det inte lönt för Mozilla att lägga ner resurser på att få Firefox att fungera under Metro.
Om, mot alla odds, Metro-program blir populära, kan Mozilla återuppta utvecklingen.