Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > Probably not. But I'd bet you a Coke it provides more than adequate
> > flexibility to implement a GUI for a web browser and a mail reader.
>
> But not to do buttons with animated background graphics and other rubbish
> demanded by CSS 3.
>
What in the name of all that is holy does CSS 3 have to do with the UI
for a web browser?!? Or are we back to thinking that Mozilla is going
to be a "platform" now?
Furthermore, you seem to be saying "well, it does damn near everything,
except for this one minor thing; ergo, out goes the bathwater, baby and
all, and we'll roll our own one pixel at a time".
> There is no way to do cross-platform widgets with enough flexibility to do
> what the later versions of CSS demand without writing your own widget set
> from scratch. Even IE have done this, as someone else said.
>
Again, please explain to me what the 'demands' of CSS have to do with
the UI of a web browser. And also, point me to some documentation that
says IE's UI is in any way concerned with CSS.
> Having done that, you might as well leverage all the work you've done to
> get a cross-platform UI rather than write a new one for each platform or
> include a second, redundant toolkit.
>
Might as well burn up as much RAM and CPU time as we can, is that what
you're saying here? How about giving to Caesar what is Caesar's?
> Gerv
