0.7.3 bugs (mea culpa!)

[William Shipley]

Let me take this opportunity to re-iterate that OmniWeb is beta software.  We  
didn't put it on the archive sites not because we're snooty, but because it's  
not ready for the general public to use.

It is ready to be tested.  We have almost exclusively engineers here at Omni,  
and engineers hate testing their own code.  So, we throw out a version onto  
our archive server every time we make some big change, in order to see if it  
works.  Sometimes the change makes it more stable, sometimes it horks things  
up.

We love to get bug reports from you guys, because you're our QA department.   
However, I want everyone to realise that this software is supposed to be  
buggy; that's why we're having you test it.

It's not supposed to be production yet.  When we think it's stable, we'll  
call it 1.0.  Right now we're just trying to figure out what features we  
should support and how they should look, and it's silly to spend a lot of  
time debugging features that may go away.

If you don't like buggy software, wait for 1.0.  If you are using beta  
OmniWeb for something really important, I think you're making a mistake --  
we're definitely going to change it even more, and in incompatible ways.

The UI is going to change.  Bugs will be fixed.  Believe me, I have every bug  
report I've ever gotten on file.  Right now our goal is to just get the  
features working enough that people can use them and give us feedback.  Once  
we've decided what features and UI we like, then we'll settle down and fix a  
bunch of bugs.

-Wil Shipley
President, Omni Development, Inc.