[desktop-discuss] HTML Composer revisited

[brian.lu]

Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> brian.lu wrote:
>> I mean community focuses on Firefox/Thunderbird development and we 
>> lever their work to make our Firefox and Thunderbird stable on soalris.
>>
>> I.e. if there are some critical bugs reported against Firefox on 
>> linux platform (also reproducible on solaris) in the community, they 
>> will fix them very soon in most cases. We can get benefit from this 
>> because we share the same code base. But for seamonkey, this is not 
>> true.  If we deliver seamonkey as a product, we need to fix all those
>> bugs by ourselves.  We don't have resources to do these.
>
> But you do have the resources to do even more fixes for Mozilla 1.7, 
> which
> no one in the community supports anymore?   At least the community is 
> doing
> some of the work for SeaMonkey.
>
Currently, it is not our team to maintain Mozilla 1.7.  A sustaining 
team is doing that work.
Secondly, Sun Mozilla 1.7 has better accessibility support than the 
community's, if we replace
Mozilla 1.7 with Seamonkey, accessibility may be an issue.