On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 12:49:34AM +0530, linuxdev wrote:
Indeed if you have used mozilla firebird you wouldn't say konqueror is better. The only complaint of long startup times for mozilla is being actively worked on will be taken care of in few months. Simple reason: they are moving away from XUL to platform dependent gui. Atleast for the framework.
Wow, where did you hear that?? AFAIK, MozillaFirebird _is_ entirely XUL and the mozilla engine is nothing but a XUL renderer. There's no way they could move "away from XUL". What they did was to move away from XPFE, which is a XUL toolkit used by the entire Mozilla application suite as we used to know it. Instead now Firebird and Thunderbird are separately written, but still in XUL just like the original XPFE.
What you probably mean is that XUL widgets are being implemented with native toolkits - but that's always been the case. You can have mozilla compiled with Gtk, if you like. The Debian packages for Mozilla are Gtk based, so that the widgets look and feel like the rest of your desktop.
Sameer.