Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

sm-discuss - Re: [SM-Discuss] Phoenix 0.3

sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Public SourceMage Discussion List

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: Rob Helmer <robert AT namodn.com>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Phoenix 0.3
  • Date: 31 Oct 2002 12:47:32 -0500

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.
>
>
>
> --
> Rob
> _______________________________________________
> SM-Discuss mailing list
> SM-Discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/sm-discuss
--


Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
-----------------
PGP public key at
http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x3327A9A5
F1

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page