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  • From: Rob Helmer <robert AT namodn.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Phoenix 0.3
  • Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 18:03:28 -0700

Hello,


I don't think anyone answered this, sorry to dredge up an old thread :)

The Phoenix-only skin "Que" is the reason to have a Phoenix spell, of
course :)
http://robert.namodn.com/images/phoenix_que.png

Serially though, Phoenix is much more of a seperation from the core
Mozilla components than the Mozilla "browser only" is, the eventual goal
is to have it use an installed Gecko Runtime Environment
( http://mozilla.org/projects/embedding/MRE.html ) rather than the user
having to have a big Mozilla installation for every Gecko/XUL-based app.

Phoenix is also a redesign of the browser front-end, and it's alot faster.
One of the ideas behind Phoenix is to strip out extraneous functionality
from the core browser as much as possible, and make it very easy
to add/enable/disable/remove add-ons ( like those from mozdev.org ).

Phoenix also lets you edit the toolbars and move the icons around,
which is neat. It has it's own skins too, although traditional Mozilla
browser skins and addons can be updated to support Phoenix very easily
( trickiest part is supporting uninstallation, most skins/addons don't
do this yet, Mozilla didn't provide a generic mechanism like Phoenix does ).

The current Mozilla browser is very hooked into alot of big components,
like the editor/composer stuff, and it doesn't have very clean hooks to
external applications. Phoenix doesn't yet, but hopefully will soon.

Eventually there will probably need to be a GRE and XRE ( XUL runtime
env. ) spell that Phoenix and Thunderbird ( the standalone mail client )
depend on, and Galeon/Skipstone/etc can just depend on GRE and not need the
whole Mozilla, and it'll be much easier to make standalone XUL/XPCOM
applications. And, a stupid browser plugin crash won't crash your
mail client anymore ( if you use Mozilla mail ) :)



--
Rob

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:43:48PM -0400, Sergey A Lipnevich wrote:
> Apart from having one more spell, what's the difference between Phoenix
> and Mozilla without mail/composer/irc client (available with properly
> configured mozilla spell)?
> Thanks!
>
> Geoffrey Derber wrote:
>
> > I posted something about this on the forums a couple weeks ago.
> > Xenith said he's working on one.
> >
> > http://forums.sourcemage.org/viewtopic.php?t=121
> >
> > Geoff
> >
> > Nick Jennings wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, I'd love to see a phoenix spell (and a mozilla-devel spell for
> >> that matter).
> >>
> >> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 01:20:58PM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> >>
> >>> Has anyone been working on a phoenix spell? If not, perhaps we
> >>> should? I
> >>> (and probably many others) just use Mozilla to browse the internet, not
> >>> for everything else which it includes (chat,mail,news,etc.).
> >>>
> >>> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/phoenix-release-notes.html
> >>>
> >>> -One of Four
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