'I'm sympathetic to the economic argument, especially given our scarce Mac hacking resources, but I think we need to be more deliberate about it,' said Mike Shaver, Mozilla's technology strategist.
Others on the thread, however, urged caution. 'There is already a backlog of tricky Panther-only regressions, bugs and performance issues in areas ranging from widgets to fonts and gfx/Cairo that I suspect will consume at least a few weeks of development time,' said Aas. 'We are already running short on time to deliver a product that works well on Tiger and Leopard. 'Dropping support for Panther would also free up engineering resources,' he said. 'Leopard,' this October as reasons for backing away from Panther. Aas cited finite development and testing resources, as well as the upcoming release of Mac OS 10.5, a.k.a.
