In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Why? What's the advantge if I've got to open a Email Client say Eudora,
> Then I have to open a dedicate News program such as News Watcher (either
> version), Then I have to open a Web Browser to show web pages.
* You get to choose the messaging clients you like and the browsers you
like based on the merits of each app.
* Your browser choice is not locked down. Migrating email is several
order of magnitude bigger a thing than switching browsers.
* When the browser crashes (and, sadly, it will), the email app doesn't.
(FWIW, I've used Eudora and MT-NewsWatcher when I had a computer with 20
MB of RAM. I continued to use them when I switched to a computer with 48
MB of RAM. I still use them on a computer with 384 MB of RAM, though
migrating from Eudora to a separate POP downloader + custom filter +
Apple's Mail & Address Book is on my to-do list.)
> Guess what I still haven't openned another application.
Should a music player, a file manager and a CPU monitor also be
integrated in the browser? I have all those running, too.
> Okay say you have a PC with 64 megs of memory. You open NewsWatcher (or
> equivelent for PC) it takes 12 megs to run. You open Eudora it takes
> 12megs it.
I realize that those numbers are rhetorical, but Eudora Light 3.x with
few windows requires as little as 700 KB on Mac Classic (more if you
have a lot of windows and huge mailboxes). MT-NewsWatcher takes 4 MB.
> Come on people! Will you think about it for a second! how is three
> programs run at the same time easier than one program capable of all
> three. Think ! Think! Oh! (Light bulb moment).
Trying to put all in one UI gets confusing. IMO, separating Photoshop
and FreeHand (or Illustrator if you like), separating the browser, email
client and MT-NewsWatcher, separating Word and Excel all make the UIs
less complicated and easier to understand.
> From the complaints i see here, I see PC folks have the same problems.
> You've already said because of the design of Moz / N6 you would have
> less than a couple of Mb to kill mail and news.
IMO, the interesting question is: Why can't Mozilla-the-browser and the
Mail&news client share libraries *and* run as separate processes?
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Henri Sivonen
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