Bug 441414 has patches adding features to XUL trees. I'm sympathetic to the desire for these features, but I do not think we should take these patches, nor any other patches adding features to XUL. XUL is a dead-end technology and investment in XUL provides minimal returns --- this includes effort spent reviewing and maintaining XUL. Some amount of XUL maintenance is necessary to support Firefox, Thunderbird and the Firefox addons ecosystem, but we should keep it to a minimum. In most cases our apps and addons can use standard Web platform technology instead, which continues to evolve rapidly.
There may be some cases where small extensions to XUL provide great benefits to the Mozilla project that we can't easily get any other way, in which case we should allow it. I don't think bug 441414 is one of those cases. With some effort you can build arbitrarily rich XUL-tree-like functionality using HTML, and that's the way to go. Rob -- oIo otoeololo oyooouo otohoaoto oaonoyooonoeo owohooo oioso oaonogoroyo owoiotoho oao oboroootohoeoro oooro osoiosotoeoro owoiololo oboeo osouobojoeocoto otooo ojouodogomoeonoto.o oAogoaoiono,o oaonoyooonoeo owohooo osoaoyoso otooo oao oboroootohoeoro oooro osoiosotoeoro,o o‘oRoaocoao,o’o oioso oaonosowoeoroaoboloeo otooo otohoeo ocooouoroto.o oAonodo oaonoyooonoeo owohooo osoaoyoso,o o‘oYooouo ofooooolo!o’o owoiololo oboeo oiono odoaonogoeoro ooofo otohoeo ofoioroeo ooofo ohoeololo. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
