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Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: emery.denuc...@gmail.com
Date: 16 Mar 2007 16:58:48 -0700
Local: Fri, Mar 16 2007 7:58 pm
Subject: Re: Any plans for a Mozilla-based OS?
On Mar 16, 11:11 am, "Mike Beltzner" <beltz...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> I'm sure that others have opinions here, but to my mind the browser *is* an OS, with the application layer being AJAX patterned apps which can be run in online and offline state. So we're kind of already there. It's not an OS, but it is indeed a platform. Really it's middle-ware > All we need to do is tune the UI a little, but you can see bookmarks <-> shortcuts, history/cache/storage <-> file system, extensions <-> plugins/system helpers. > "The network is the computer," indeed! > cheers, that is ported to a number of OS's. On each OS it is implemented differently, on top of or along side an existing native GUI, because there isn't a Mozilla desktop. The thing is that XUL beats the socks off of any other GUI (IMO), and it seems unfair for it not to have a dedicated OS where it is the native GUI instead of just mimicking the look n' feels of all these others. It wouldn't be a monumental task to create a desktop with XUL. It would first be a matter of tying in the things that are now currently borrowed from the native API, like find file dialogs. Then we'd need to make a Mozilla-based graphical shell. Doing what Gnome and KDE have done should not take nearly as much effort because most of the work is already done. XUL is already an incredibly powerful widget toolkit with all the works (widgets, locales, skinning, etc...) built into it already. You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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