Okay, I see someone has already set you straight on this, so please 
excuse me. I don't want to give you the impression that we're all 
aggressive here ;-)  But next time, you might want to restate your 
assertions as questions.

Blake

David Tenser wrote:
> 
> 
> Blake Ross wrote:
> 
>>> It's not a presumption. XUL. That's a _big_ effort in making Mozilla 
>>> skinnable.
>>
>>
>>
>> Sorry, my bad. It's total misinformation, then. XUL has nothing to do 
>> with skinability.
> 
> 
> It hasn't? What about this quotation from the Mozilla.org /start page:
> 
> "Is there some bug that really bothers you? As well as reporting it, 
> feel free to fix it as well. Fixing bugs in Mozilla is far easier than 
> in many other applications, because you can fix bugs (such as those in 
> our cross-platform front end, written in XUL, our XML-based 
> User-interface Language, CSS and Javascript) using only the build you 
> are running right now. There is no need to set up complex environments, 
> or compile anything."
> 
> So XUL-based skinnable user interface has nothing to do with XUL? :)
> 
>>> This article is actually written by a staff member of Mozilla, so 
>>> this is serious stuff. If you doubt people wants to customize the 
>>> looks of an application, you're being ignorant.
>>
>>
>>
>> Matthew Thomas (mpt) is not a staff member of Mozilla.  And I say that 
>> if you think most people desire a different toolbar layout than the 
>> default, you're thinking too much like a technical user.  From the 
>> feedback submissions I've read from Netscape 6.x, few users have 
>> requested toolbar reordering.
> 
> 
> You seem to know less than I do about these things, Blake. mpt is the 
> owner of the UI Design component in Bugzilla. The proof
> is right here:
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Browser
> 
> / David
> 


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