In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> TommyBee wrote:
>
> > - Why is the Address Book still included if I didn't install Mail /
> > News? I see no function for an Address Book in a plain ol' web browser.
> >
> > - Why isn't Composer a separate module? I have a feeling that very few
> > people are going to use Mozilla / Netscape for page editing, and even if
> > separating Composer doesn't offer much in RAM or hard disk usage
> > savings, doing so would at least make Mozilla that much less cluttered
> > for those who choose not to install Composer.
> >
> > - There has been conversation about the fact that Mail / News can't be
> > installed without Navigator. It seems to me that Navigator itself
> > contains much of the core of Mozilla -- would it be possible to make
> > this core part of the "standard" Mozilla install so that each module
> > (heck, someone might even want just Chatzilla) could be installed on its
> > own?
>
> Composer gives both the browser component and the Mail/News
> component the ability to use forms, so it's needed for that.
>
> Making Mail/News a standalone is an interesting one, and do
> a lot of people who don't use the Mozilla (or Netscape 6)
> browser want to use its built in Mail/News? Just a thought.
> Perhaps as a embedded application maybe?
I don't recall Netscape 3.x Standard having a problem with forms, and it
certainly didn't have a full-fledged web page composer built-in. Was
this integration done by necessity, or was it just more convenient to
tie the two together? At any rate, it should be possible to strip at
least the Composer interface out and leave the underlying code to
remain. Like I said above, it has more to do with interface
simplification than with performance gains.
I honestly don't know how much demand there is for a standalone Mozilla
Mail/News application, but I've read some discussion of such requests on
Mozilla newsgroups. Personally my reasons for wanting such a split
would be to provide increased stability (the browser can come down
without screwing up Mail/News preferences and files). As Mozilla
stabilizes, this will probably be less of an issue, but it's still an
idea.
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TommyBee
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