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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

Yeah, but two frontends/user interfaces for a browser seems like a bit
much in one application, even for Mozilla! ;)

But as was clarified before, it's in the CVS, but not in the tarball.

On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 13:03, Rob Helmer wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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> Rob
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