Re: 2.4 Module List and Rationale (aka GEP10 and 11)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 09:54:44AM +0000, mpeseng tin it wrote: 
> I think the advantages of Galeon/Epiphany at the moment are:
> 
> 1 Native widgets (the native theme thing even if would work perfectly would
> solve only part of the problem)
> 2 HIG compliance
> 3 Use of system prefs (proxy, toolbars...)
> 4 Simpler interface (Phoenix could help here)
> 5 Mime types/protocols integration
> 

Another possible advantage is keeping our GUI shell more orthogonal to
the layout engine; not having looked at the code, I could imagine
porting epiphany/galeon to something other than gecko if we ever end
up wanting to do that, without causing much end user disruption.
While with mozilla you have the xul chrome tightly bound up with the 
gecko engine.

Havoc