Re: 2 UI comments on the Alpha Sneak Preview

[email protected] (Ned Baldessin) Wed, 24 Sep 2003 10:14:26 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.editors.bitflux.devel
Organization IDSland
Message-ID <1g1sbee.smqj6r4yk0jkM%[email protected]>
> It is quite streamlined, yes, but still too much for the casual case and
> a lot of users (not the usual geek) find even this still scary ;) Or if
> you do a large deployement, you don't want to have to install BXE on 
> every seat. Or if your outside of your normal workspace and want to do a
> quick edit on some of your content.

Well, one requisite for BXE is to have a Mozilla-based browser
installed. In my experience over here in france, the only major
institution that complies to that is the ministry of agriculture (!).
The point is : when asked, people don't seem put off by installing a new
browser, so I don't think that adding a second step (the xpi) would make
much of a difference.
I agree that it's an inconveniance, but probably not a big one.


> There is no argument against doing it as XPI and doing it in XUL, but I
> think the alternative (working without the need of an installation 
> process) should also be possible, maybe with less features, but it has
> to work. Otherwise it's too complicated

Hum, current version + remote XUL version + XPI version, that sounds
extra-fluffy.
Actually, my major «complaint» with the current toolbar is that is
overlaps on the page. Off the top of my head : why not set the <body>
top padding to the height of the toolbar ?
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