At 06:51 27/11/2000 -0500, John Welch wrote:
>On 11/27/00 5:01 AM, "Simon P. Lucy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
><delenda est...>
> >
> > That's to misunderstand the nature of beast. mozilla still uses the
> > underlying window O/S and all of the messaging, mozilla is not a
> > replacement windowing system, its an XP overlay.
>
>Be that as it may, It's duplicating window display code on every OS, as
>evidenced on at least the MacOS by it's refusal to acknowledge Appearance
>Manager settings. Wonder how many of the three years of development leading
>up to the current state of affairs was wasted on XUL and skins. Might have
>been nice had this effort been directed towards towards coding of basic
>functions, fixing the screamingly obvious bugs in those areas, and then
>dealing with niceties like skins.
Skins are really very secondary to the purpose of XUL and XBL. Skins
really fall out of interface widgets being CSS stylable.
>And as far as the sometimes - voice threat of "without XUL, it would have
>been windows - only"...riiiggght. Suuuuuure. Netscape is stupid enough to
>ignore the platforms where they still have customers and a market share that
>isn't a joke.
Well it might have been GTK and MS-Windows, it certainly wouldn't have been
Mac, nor the rest of the platforms.
>But then again, since Netscape isn't my only choice in any platform, that's
>an empty threat anyway.
>
>john
If you want to go Netscape bashing, a process slightly easier than stealing
sweets from babies, I suggest you go to a netscape newsgroup to do
it. XPFE is here and will provide a lot more than simply different front
ends as time goes on.
Simon
