Re: A change in direction for Epiphany?

[Britt Selvitelle <anotherbritt gmail com>]

On 6/24/05, Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org> wrote:
> Hello Ryan,
> 
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Ryan Thiessen wrote:
> 
> > becoming more of a Gnome browser.  For example, I have read that they
> > are planning to even tweak the preferences dialogs to make them more
> > Gnome HIG compliant.
> 
> That might be true, but tweaking layout is not the key to becoming HIG
> compliant; it also covers Yes/No or OK/Cancel buttons on dialogues for
> instance, that have to be replaced by more descriptive labels. The
> problem for Firefox is that if they do this, they're not compliant with
> windows-style guidelines any more, so they'd have to create separate
> branches to be completely guideline-compatible on all platforms, and I
> don't think they want to do that.

They're already doing this though correct? With firefox-gnome in the ff source.

One thing I'd like to see in epiphany is javascript bindings. It just
makes sense to be able to develop for the browser in the same language
you use to develop for the web.

Britt