Not worth commenting on. If you can't contribute anything in a
constructive/sensible (and not to mention factually correct) manner then
don't waste people's time.
Cheers,
Chris
"Mama Cass Elliot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In netscape.public.mozilla.general the people heard Chris Melville say
> these wise words:
>
> >Definately not! I wasn't suggesting adding anything of any substance
>
> Then why make the suggestion?
>
>
> >its
> >more a
> >case of a bit of juggling Mozilla to separate the outer shell UI from the
> >inner
> >application UI, and adding some run-time switching of things (Gerv's
> >response
> >suggests it's already there or thereabouts). I certainly didn't intend
to
> >suggest
> >any major development, nor did I expect it to be necessary.
>
> Mozilla IS a BROWSER, Email Client, Newsgroup Reader, and Page Composer.
>
> It is not, nor should it be, a poor copy of Windows - which is precicely
> what you've just described - a programme that is a shell in which people
> can load "applications" of said shell.
>
> Only this would be an application running within an shell which is an
> application of a windows shell which is a programme that runs on MS-DOS.
>
> IMHO, such an idea is totally hairbrained! Look at all the doubling up!
>
> Get Mozilla working, and make it bug-free, and ONLY THEN consder to do
some
> hair-brained crakcpot scheme like turning it into another Windows(tm)
look-
> alike shell that will run any "application" that will run within that
> <joke> "operating system" </joke>
>
> Perhaps such a change *might* be suitable for Moz 3.0 - in other words,
GET
> THE CURRENT PROJECT WORKING AND BUG-FREE BEFORE WRECKING IT BY TURNING IT
> ON IT'S HEAD!
>
>
> seeya - wouldn't wanna be ya.
>
> Mama Cass
>
> --
> For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
> --
> The above reply is in response to a person who can be only described as a
> knuckle-dragger.
> --
> John Nichols: "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer
> cell."
> --
> Julian Visch: "I always find it amazing how an atheist like myself can
know
> so much more about Christianity than those who worship it."
> And... "Don't dabble in things you don't understand." (with corrected
> spelling)
> --
> "It's easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
