Re: Galeon2 / Nautilus as a web browser

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

Luis Villa wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:14, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 16:57, Sander Vesik wrote:
> >
> > > Why is that a problem? Practicly everybody ships mozilla in some for of 
> > > other, and it is at least as portable as gnome.
> >
> > With each year that passes, it is less of a problem, indeed.
>
>
> Actually, it is still a big problem, since mozilla is not API stable.
> Virtually everyone on the planet would need to upgrade their mozilla to
> get a working epiphany, for example, and the number of people who won't
> need to upgrade to run galeon 1.3.3 is also vanishingly small. So,
> 'everyone uses mozilla' doesn't really help us as much as I wish it
> would. :/

I guess it depends on the selection of the API you use. But really - it is 
not so much a question of 'everybody runs mozilla' but everybody *ships* 
mozilla - making sure a shipped desktop upgrades componnets in a reasonable 
way is not that hard. Mozilla is really no differnet in a significant way 
from any gnome "desktop" libraries.

> Luis


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