Re: About minimum platform requirements.

[Asa Dotzler]

Matthew Thomas wrote:

> Gervase Markham wrote:
> 
>>> Designing a good UI is not trivial.
>> 
>> Indeed. Why should mozilla.org claim that it can do it better than
>> anyone else? It doesn't - hence skins and chrome.
> 
> 
> No, hence open source. The lack of skinability in any particular free
> software project does not prevent people from improving its UI.
> 
> All skinability does is confuse and dilute the effort put in to
> improving the user interface. For example, Mozilla currently ships with
> two skins, one of which (Classic) is noticably unfinished.
> 

Mozilla currently "ships" (I'd prefer "provides courtesy binaries for 
testing and development") with just about everything noticably unfinished ;)

-Asa

> 
>> For example, Mr Jakob Nielsen could put his money where his mouth is
>> and design, or get others to design, a new Mozilla skin/chrome which
>> put into practice his principles of usability.
>> ...
> 
> 
> Jakob's concerns are more with the navigational features a browser
> provides (such as support for the LINK element, indication of link
> attributes, etc) than they are with the cosmetics.