Gervase Markham wrote:

> Which bit of "it's not finished yet" do you, or they, have trouble 
> understanding?


that's not the issue, Gerv. I don't design themes, BTW.


> Either:
> 
> 1) You try and keep up with XUL development, and accept that things will 
> break


This is exactly what theme designers were doing, until the "fix" for bug 
99102 came along. Skins slowly degraded as XUL development proceeded, 
but they still *worked*. Since this "fix", perfectly good themes are 
*deleted* on the mere *suspicion* of incompatibility.


> 2) You make your skin for one specific Mozilla version
> or
> 3) You wait until XUL 1.0 and then make a skin.
> 
> Those are your options. Magic option 4:
> 
> 4) Make a skin and have it magically work with every Mozilla version ever
> 
> does not exist. XUL will get frozen when it's ready, and not a moment 
> later.


5) Designers turn their backs on Mozilla and find more productive pursuits.

A great pity. It could have been avoided.





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