Christian Mattar wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> JTK wrote:
> >
> > Gervase Markham wrote:
> > >
> > > > > The open/save dialog is skinnable on Linux because several window
> > > > > managers support themes. So the dialog is skinnable, but not through
> > > > > Mozilla's skins. That's why he added the winking smiley.
> > > >
> > > > Ah, ok.
> > >
> > > Perhaps I might politely suggest that, if you wish to slag Mozilla off in
> > > these developer newsgroups,
> >
> > Developer newsgroups? I don't see '.developers.only' anywhere in the
> > title. I do see '.public', and until such time as somebody can explain
> > to me why what I'm saying doesn't qualify as 'general' and 'mozilla', or
> > show that I am not a member of the 'public', I'll keep right on talking
> > plain and telling it like it so sadly is (ie what you refer to as
> > 'slagging off Mozilla').
> >
> > > you might check facts before leaping in with
> > > both feet?
> > >
> > > Gerv
> >
> > Check which facts again? I'm quite well aware of what a mess
> > Unix/Linux's lack of picking a lane when it comes to window managers has
> > caused. Frankly, it surprises me that Mozilla *doesn't* roll its own on
> > these platforms, it certainly couldn't make things any worse.
> >
> > And am I mistaken, or has nobody yet come up with a passable explanation
> > as to why the file save dialogs have been singled out as 'native is OK',
> > while virtually nothing else is, eg tree controls?
>
> It's also a matter of control. CSS needs much more control over widgets
> than most OS give you (colors, clipping, event handling...).
> In case you didn't know: IE also imlements its own toolkit, they just
> have the insider knowledge to make it appear very similar to the normal
> Win32 toolkit.
>
> Christian
BTW. on my old Celeron 266 IE gets quite jumpy with scrolling when there
is at least one visible combobox (and it always seems to move a bit
behind...) while Mozilla (and Communicator 4.72) scrolls very smoothly..
Ere
