TommyBee wrote:
> 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.
This is not Netscape 3.x
Was
> this integration done by necessity, or was it just more convenient to
> tie the two together?
The Composer backend is all really browser code. The front end is a
couple hundred K of images and css. It's basically a free app.
At any rate, it should be possible to strip at
> least the Composer interface out and leave the underlying code to
> remain.
It is possible. There isn't much in this universe which isn't. And
guess what? It's even easy to do. In about 5 minutes anyone familiar
with web development could remove the menu items associated with composer.
Like I said above, it has more to do with interface
> simplification than with performance gains.
So get a build and hack it. The UI isn't compiled, you edit a few text
files and the interface is whatever you want it to be.
--Asa
