Re: Ideas for future of Galeon 2

This is an EXCELLENT idea - hope it could be implementable.

It is much better that having 2 uis. To use basic maths the simple ui is 
always going to be a subset of the more complex one so an extension
system makes so much more sense that two different uis.

Maybe an extension system is overkill though. A galeon powerpack IMHO would 
be cool.

Mark


On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:40, Mox Huuhtanen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I really hope things can be worked out, at least so that any kind of major 
> fork can be avoided... At least I don't see any unsolvable issues that 
> couldn't be worked around....
> 
> You guys are probably aware of the Phoenix project 
> (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/), but I'll talk about it a little 
> in case people have missed it...
> 
> The really great idea in Phoenix is that it aims to be very simple browser. 
> No bells and whistles except those that are directly related to _browsing_ 
> the web.
> 
> Phoenix has, however, a very clever idea called "extensions" which are 
> pluggable functional and UI-adding features. The extensions can be 
> downloaded and installed straight from a webpage and are usable after 
> restarting the browser. (Plugins is a term reserved for web plugins such as 
> realplayer).
> 
> What's so great in this idea, is that the focus is on "vanilla" browser, 
> that can be enhanced and even choked full of extensions. BUT: those 
> extensions are individually chosen by each user.
> 
> .....
> 
> There are several technological approaches that would be lighter weight than 
> the extensions approach, although they would probably not be as flexible. In 
> the intrest of fast results, some of the alternative approaches could be 
> chosen as intermediate solutions...
> 
> So, what I'm hoping, is that people could agree on building a "vanilla" 
> browser, but at the same time would agree on and implement some sort of 
> extension mechanism with which the more function-full browser supporters 
> could extend the vanilla one, without the need for separating the 
> development trees.
> 
> If the extension system is smart, I see no reason why galeon could not have 
> the same garden of add-ons that are available for mozilla (mozdev.org) and 
> for several IM-clones, for example....
> 
> Thanks for the great browser!
> 
>      Mox
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