Re: Mozilla Firebird and user-specified page colours

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From: Phil!Gregory
Subject: Re: Mozilla Firebird and user-specified page colours
Date: 17:07 on 11 May 2004
* Earle Martin <hates-software@xxxxxxxx.xxx> [2004-05-11 16:14 +0100]:
> They could have included the standard fucking type of color picker
> that everyone expects, but they didn't

Standard widgets?  From Mozilla?  ::has a right good laugh::  No, it's
easier for them, apparently, to write everything themselves, rather than
deal with calling native widgets on various platforms.  Ease of
implementation over ease of use.  It's the Unix Way™.

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