SeaMonkey:Name And Version
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What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
The official project name is "SeaMonkey".
Announcement of project name: SeaMonkey Project Continues Internet Suite
SeaMonkey will start as version 1.0, after alpha and beta releases. SeaMonkey 1.0 will base Gecko 1.8.0.x code. We're alse planning to release SeaMonkey 1.1 based on Gecko 1.8.1 and SeaMonkey 1.5 based on Gecko 1.9, all not yet released version numbers are subject to change.
The "1.0" version number was picked because Mozilla Foundation urged us not to use the previous suite versioning scheme, so we could not go with 1.8 for the Gecko-1.8-based suite. Additionally, we are a new project, a completely new development team and this is our first stable release, warranting the 1.0 version number.
The project decided on a new logo on December 2, 2005. For further details see the SeaMonkey artwork page. The new logo is used in SeaMonkey 1.0 beta, and in the current trunk and branch nightly builds.
Origin of the name "SeaMonkey"
"SeaMonkey" has been the codename for the Mozilla suite for some time, though it originally was invented by Netscape management as a codename for the release later called "Netscape 6" - they simply needed a "politically correct" version of the codename "ButtMonkey" their developers had actually voted for (and apparently "jenga" was the run-in in this voting)... (Thanks to dveditz, Google cache and pseudorandom.org IRC logs for helping us to find out about that)
The real "Sea-Monkeys" (Artemia Nyos) are a hybrid of Artemia Salina (brine shrimp), read more about those animals in Wikipedia...
BTW, the German translation of the name, "Seeaffe", was/is an alias for the Sea Mink (Mustela macrodon) which is an extinct species (hunted for its highly-valued fur, extinct around 1890) of the Mustelidae or weasel family. A close, still living, relative to that animal can be viewed in that picture. Interestingly, weasels might look similar to small Foxes and the codename for unoffical, changed builds of Firefox is "Iceweasel". ;-) BTW, while the chinese word for "Firefox" can refer to both the red fox and the red panda, the latter is a closer relative to the Sea Mink than the former...
