[H-GEN] Re: HTML Mail in Mozilla

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-09-10, Ben Fowler wrote:

> Amen, perhaps Mozilla suite was what Fred Brooks would have called a 
> 'second generation system', and the Mozilla developers sought to get the 
>  user interface, feature set and overall design right the next time 
> around.  A case of third time lucky?

They need to shoot everybody who has ever glimpsed the mozilla
code and get an entirely new team to implement it from scratch
if they ever hope to turn it into something they can be proud
of.

> I have a tendency to use graphical mail clients because of all the 
> people who send me HTML-encoded email.

I find that if I ignore html email, people either get bored by
my lack of response and go away or they figure out how to send
text/plain -- either of these outcomes is fine with me.

> [1] Another thing I find interesting /irritating is that the Gecko 
> Runtime Environment (GRE) hasn't been factored out of Firebird and 
> Thunderbird into a standalone component yet.  Splitting up the old suite 
> seems to have achieved little bar duplicating the mozilla runtime for 
> each application that uses it.  It seems unnecessarily wasteful to me.

The people who did netscape, mozilla, firebird, etc., really
don't have a clue about software engineering, so this kind of
failure is not at all surprising.  I could rant on about this
for ages (and will do so in another forum on another day).

Cheers, Greg

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