On Sun, 27 May 2001 10:11:34 +0300, Henri Sivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
somehow managed to type:
>> Just because someone hasn't done it doesn't make it impossible. It
>> would actually be pretty easy to make a standalone mail or composer
>> client.
>
>Why isn't Mail&News a separate app if it would be easy to make it so?
Firstly, because the inconvenience of running the browser and mail/news
in the same process was considered less of a problem than the system
resource overhead of running two separate copies of Mozilla.
Secondly, because that's the way Netscape Communicator worked, and Mozilla
is supposed to supply Netscape with a replacement for Communicator.
Thirdly, having the various aspects of Mozilla running in separate
processes brings in all sorts of issues about performing inter-process
communications in a uniform manner across multiple platforms, and might
significantly complicate embedding scenarios.
Charles Miller
