If you look at the Winamp skins. It's just a picture that goes over a
default space. It's also just 3 windows. Doing that works fine if all
you have is 3 windows. 3 small windows can be morphed into whatever you
want with 20 or so jpegs and gifs, but if you go through Mozilla there's
much more than just 3 windows. It would be crazy to do skins that way.
Mozilla has to do it in a way that just a few little graphics can be
spread everywhere in the app and have it still work fine.
Greg Miller wrote:
> Daggi Elehu wrote:
>
>> I also understand that skin changing is a nice feature to throw into a
>> new modern application. But I can't understand why this
>> customizability don't stop at Winamp-level: Change of appareance but
>> not functionality.
>
>
> Winamp is an application. Mozilla is a platform. Mozilla has to have a
> mechanism flexible enough to support all the applications that will be
> developed for it, in much the same way that Windows, MacOS, and Java do.
