On Tuesday 2014-10-14 11:28 +1300, Robert O'Callahan wrote: > 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.
Agreed. (And, really, I should have sent something like the above message two weeks ago, but roc beat me to it.) -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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