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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: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 10:03:44 -0800

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 12:24:18PM -0500, Dufflebunk wrote:
> Ewww, phoenix is included in mozilla?


Phoenix IS mozilla, it's just a reworking of the frontend, so
it's mostly a bunch of XUL ( XML files ). All the fixes that
go into the Mozilla trunk go into Phoenix as well ( except
for frontend work ), Phoenix stuff generally doesn't migrate
back to Mozilla, since the Mozilla UI is seen as the problem that
it's trying to overcome.

The developers treat Phoenix as "what mozilla should have been" :

* a browser
* fast(er)
* has a good user interface, designed by a small team

It's still standards compliant and cross-platform, so it depends
on all the xpcom/xpfe/gecko/javascript/etc. that they developed
for the Mozilla project.

Hopefully, once it gets good enough what is now "phoenix" will
replace "mozilla navigator", and will be a seperate application from
"mozilla mail" ( there's a Thunderbird project for that ), as
opposed to the monolithic application that the "Mozilla Suite" is
now.



--
Rob




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