On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 06:31:27PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2003 11:51:00 at 11:51:00AM -0400, Havoc Pennington (hp@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > Very interesting. May I ask you to elaborate on this? (not "when", of > > > course, but why, in which way, etc...) > > > > Not sure what you're asking; all I'm saying is that the default > > browser on the panel is likely to change to something that uses real > > GTK or Qt widgets, as soon as something like that is mature enough. > > The explanation above answers the "in which way" part of my question, > thanks. The "why" part meant "what are the reasons"? > > Technical > Performance > Stability > Easier maintenance/QA > Compliance with standards (which ones?) > Usability/accessibility issues > Better internationalization > License > We don't like no XUL lizards > Whatever > Right, "many of the above" You get right UI and keybindings for free, right themes for free, right accessibility for free, right i18n for free, etc. While with XUL all that has to be reimplemented. Every toolkit is another half million lines of code that has to be kept in sync with what a Linux UI is supposed to be like and what features it's supposed to have. Havoc
