Hi!
Christopher Jahn wrote:
>
> And it came to pass that TommyBee at TommyBee dot Com wrote:
>
> >Freya wrote:
> >
> >> Will the new mozilla mail and news program be intergrated
> >> into Mozilla in the same way as Netscape mail was
> >> integrated into Netscape?
> >>
> >> I much prefer the way that Outlook express is seperate from
> >> the browser, that way if you want to use another mail
> >> client but keep the same browser you can or viz a viz.
> >
> >
> >Currently Mozilla (and Netscape 6 I believe for that matter)
> >allow you to choose which components to install.
> >Theoretically you could make two different installations, one
> >with Navigator and another with Mail / News, but I myself
> >haven't tried such a feat and wouldn't know if everything
> >works properly.
> >
>
> But you CAN'T install JUST Mail/News - the Browser must be
> installed with Mail/News.
AFAIK the same holds true for Outlook Express / IE.
I think nowadays there isn't a single MS product which doesn't need you
to install IE.
You have a point, though.
Perhaps one day someone will write a non-XUL UI for MailNews, so that
Gecko isn't needed anymore.
I think Ben Bucksch wrote something about this some weeks ago. Then the
only overhead would be XPCOM, but you'd have to live with that...
Christian
