W dniu sobota, 12 grudnia 2015 06:04:44 UTC+1 użytkownik Daniel Glazman napisał: > On 11/12/2015 21:26, Ben Bucksch wrote: > > > Doug, you can't believe how relieved I am to hear that. That's what I > > had always understood. > > HTML5 is the future, we'll slowly migrate to there. I hope that Servo > > will be our renderer in the not too distant future, and I'd be happy to > > see XBL eventually die. Some change is necessary, the question is how > > the change happens. First have a replacement that's better and more > > powerful, then let it pick up, see how people like it, wait a few years, > > then kill the old tech. > > > > Now I hear 18 months until death of XUL extensions, which would > > effectively eradicate the majority of AMO and internal projects, and > > that's an entirely different story. This is the point where projects are > > at immediate risk, projects get canned. Very concretely, one employee of > > mine resigned. > > > > I would like to have *more* of this kind of discussion out in the open, > > and most importantly to have this open discussion determine the decision > > that's made. > > > > All in all, thank you, Doug. Your post was speaking reasonableness. > > I concur entirely. A large Japan-based company pinged me a few weeks > ago, they wanted me to write an extension to Thunderbird adding UI > for writing-modes in HTML emails so they could author vertical-writing > messages. They are already users of BlueGriffon EPUB. The extension was > supposed to become OSS, free of charge, announced by PR, all of Japan > and China could have used it. Of course precisely in my favorite scope. > > Mitchell's announcement, relayed by ComputerWorld 3 days ago at the end > of the FirefoxOS change announcement (they specifically quoted that > article), made them stop abruptly the discussions yesterday so I lost a > customer, and Thunderbird lost a market. A better - and more > discussed with us - process is badly needed. This is killing our > companies, and harming not only the future of Thunderbird but of a whole > ecosystem. Users are fleeing because of this. > > </Daniel>
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