Re: Happy 3rd Birthday Mozilla :-)

[JTK]

Stuart Ballard wrote:
> 

[snip]

> PS I suppose you'll come up with some conspiracy theory like "Netscape
> always wanted to make it skinnable, but they were deciding that in some
> private discussions that they didn't publicise until later". But why
> would they keep it hidden? They were perfectly capable of providing
> skinnability as soon as the interpreted UI was in place, but they
> didn't.

So you're saying that there was at one point an interpreted GUI that
*didn't* support skinnability?!?

> They waited until beta 1 came out and everyone said "God this is
> so ugly" (which everyone on the newsgroups here had been saying for 3
> months already) to realize that skinnability had to be a design goal.

Point I've been trying to make #1:  Skinnability was indeed a design
goal.

> This sounds to me like management *incompetence*, not a conspiracy.

Point I've been trying to make #2.