JTK wrote:
> Though you do have a point, albeit minor. Sombody could have decided
> that a cross-platform web browser wasn't possible unless they wrote
> their own device drivers (interpreted-from-ASCII of course, somehow) for
> any hardware used by it. That would be more complex, granted.
Look, whether you believe it or not is irrelevant as it has no impact on
reality. The ability to write a cross platform application depends heavily on
how to communicate the UI. Have you played Quake 3? Not only is the UI custom,
but they went to the extreme for code portability. He wrote a virtual machine
for each platform, and then all the game and UI code is compiled at runtime,
like Java. Now, Mozilla didn't go that far because it doesn't have quite the
same scope, but without a standard UI toolkit, the only way to create an XP app
it to either code it once for each platform, or create your own UI. THat's just
the way it is.
> For my own amusement?!? What kind of ghoul do you think I am? No
> Garth, I "keep trying to convince people to give up on Mozilla" (a gross
> mischaracterization of my position BTW) because what's being done to it
> is sickening to me, and to the legions of other once-Netscape users who
> will never use Mozilla. Mozilla is being 'kept alive' on respirators
> and feeding tubes while the carcass rots before my very eyes. There's
> nothing left to give up on; Mozilla died three years ago, and all anyone
> who points out that it's starting to stink gets is a blank stare at
> best, strident "I like the stink!"'s at worst.
Mozilla is hardly dead. A $300 app was just released based on it. There are
other apps in development. It's being worked on the use in the embedded space.
No matter what you hear, there's a group in AOL that is working on it for their
XP push, such as AOLTV and others. Every day new people come to the project to
help. It's hardly dead.
And if you'll never use it, then why keep hammering at US to stop working on it?
Why not leave us alone to use it as we wish? What can possibly be in it for you?
If it's dead to you, and you'll never use it, why are you here? Personally, when
I abandon a product, I generally let others who use it alone, and never think of
it again. I'm not constantly writing to Deltacomm to create a new version of
Telix, bitching and moaning all the way. What is the purpose of your constant
badgering here?
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