In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Alex wrote:
> >
> > TommyBee wrote:
> >
> > > - 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?
> >
> > 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 wouldn't mind a Email News Client only. Most of my webbrowsing has to
> do with software updates and I use Interarchy for that (Anarchie).
>
> Maybe Mozilla/ netscape should do like Microsoft. Have two unique
> programs that call up one or another like OE(Entourage)/IE.
>
> That way you could have two teams. One that can pour their heart into
> designing the Web Browser and one that would pour their heart into the
> Email/Newsgroup client.
I don't know that the work itself should be independent, but I like the
idea of having the front ends be separate applications. Perhaps that
way the preferences of each module would be less susceptible to
corruption by the other modules. (Darn you, .msf files!)
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TommyBee
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