First of all, as a Seamonkey user from day one I have to say a big
thanks to all the the people involved in keeping this project alive and
providing such a fantastic web suite for so many years! Your work is
really appreciated and I think most users do fully understand how much
of your time and effort is needed to get this done.
That being said: after reading the blog update I'm not very optimistic
about the options the seamonkey project has because in my optinion
Seamonkey will have to go for Quantum in order to keep up with the web
standards and new technology. Without an competitive rendering engine it
will not have any future. And if this means that classic extensions will
no longer be supported or loved features will have to be dropped then it
should be done. Because without an up to date engine Seamonkey will not
be able to appeal to new users and long time users will slowly move on
as well. I.e. in my optinion Seamonkey would not have a future without
an up-to-date engine.
Would it maybe be possible to build some XUL layer on top of Quantum? I
mean a way to still provide the needed interfaces for XUL, but in the
end render everything using the new engine?
In any case, I think it would be better to spend effort into migration
to something future oriented, even if it means to lose loved features or
functionality, than to spend the effort in keeping something outdated alive.
Whatever the future of the Seamonkey project will be, I'm very thankful
for the people caring for the project and supporting it.
You're all great!
Ant schrieb:
https://blog.seamonkey-project.org/2018/12/19/updating-everyone/
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