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List:       mozilla-ui
Subject:    Re: New Skin and Buttons
From:       Mark Anderson <andersma () luther ! edu>
Date:       1999-10-31 15:10:23
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> Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that if one wanted a successful
> product, one would design it to have the features that your target users
> want. In the 2 and a half years I have provided volunteer support in the
> Netscape Communicator group I have seen hundreds of people request that
> they be able to add or remove buttons from the toolbar like WordPerfect
> or MS Office. So, what does Mozilla/Netscape do? They make XUL. Nobody
> wants to learn XUL, XPCom, JavaScript, Mozilla's API's, about notifications
> bubbling up through a tree, or any of that crap to add a button. They
> just want to be able to right-click -> add button. Instead, it's going
> to be a month long project for some people to be able to add a "Load
> Pictures" button to the browser. How smart is that?

MozClassic actually had that.  But the code to it had to be scrapped,
because many groups (the Web Standards Project being the most obvious)
lobbied Netscape to drop their old ways and start new.  It'll get back
in the build at some point, but probably not until the first revision of
Mozilla.

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