JTK wrote:
> To Pratik, Blake, barney, Phillip, and the rest of the dozen or so folks
> who have used Composer in the past:
>
> Did you guys miss this part of my post?:
>
> "Ship it as a separate product." - Gary R. Van Sickle
No.
>
> My one and only point here is that it has no business as part of a web
> browser/mail reader client. Don't read over "client". Of the literally
> hundreds of people who may eventually download Mozilla, 99% will do so
> to get a web browser, 90% will do so to get an email/newsreader, and >1%
> will do so to get a minimal web page editor.
You gathered this information how? Your data is posted where?
And yet all will get that
> web page editor, which they will never, ever, ever use.
I suppose I'm not part of that "they" since I use it all the time in
Mail HTML Compose as well as to put together reports and presentations
and other bits of HTML I share with large groups of people.
>
> Does it have a minimal code size and memory impact on Mozilla?
I think I saw the number at something like 250K for the Composer XUL and
the rest can't be removed without breaking HTML Mail Compose.
Nothing
> else about Mozilla does. Pull it out and show me the minimal
> difference.
Like I said, I think it's about 250K worth of XUL. If it's important to
you to have a browser/mail client suite without a Composer client then
feel free to package up a little JTKzilla that removes the menuitem and
the composer.xul and see if other people like it. I would be glad to do
anything I can to point people to your "improved" distribution. If
you're interested in putting together your own browser distribution I
can point you to some build instructions and tips for removing all the
stuff you want. Most XUL isn't that hard to remove.
--Asa
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