Re: Mozilla Firebird and user-specified page colours

[prev] [thread] [next] [lurker] [Date index for 2004/05/11]

From: Foofy
Subject: Re: Mozilla Firebird and user-specified page colours
Date: 17:27 on 11 May 2004
On Tue, 11 May 2004 12:07:16 -0400, Phil!Gregory <phil_g@xxxxx.xxx> wrote:

> 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™.

It amazes me people always feel the urge to reinvent the UI. I just feel  
it would be easier to write a layer to map abstract (very common) UI  
elements to the native OS elements. But no, developers want to forget the  
years and years of work and bug fixes in OS UI element libraries to go at  
it on their own! Jeeze, even the Microsoft Office team feels the urge to  
rewrite stuff every couple of years...

ALSO HATING people (that means me) who are too stupid to use the  
Reply-To-All button. Sorry Phil. :(

-- 
Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/
There's stuff above here

Generated at 14:02 on 01 Jul 2004 by mariachi 0.52