Re: Call for comment and/or interest - project to restructure Mozilla as a generic application platform

[JTK]

Chris Melville wrote:
> 
> Currently Mozilla is a browser (Navigator), with additional "applications"
> like Communicator/Composer. However I am interested in generalising its
> design so that it becomes a generic application platform in which plug-in
> applications (lets call them PIAs, not to be confused with the current
> browser plug-ins) run.
>

Well, that's the not-entirely-unspoken plan already.  Myself, I think it
would be in everybody's best interest to first deliver a usable web
browser and email/news client, and then think about taking over the
computing world with another platform.