[Usability] Re: help browser plan

[Ravi Pratap M <ravi ximian com>]

On Tue, 2001-11-27 at 20:07, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> tis 2001-11-27 klockan 03.49 skrev Havoc Pennington:
> > 
> > Alex Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes:
> > > On 26 Nov 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > If we can get gtkhtml2 stablized and such, couldn't it replace Mozilla
> > > > in the GNOME 2 nautilus?
> > > 
> > > It could be one choice (the default even) for the web view, yes. That 
> > > would be very nice.
> > 
> > But then we are back to having to stabilize GtkHTML2 for arbitrary web
> > pages, and even adding features such as JavaScript to it.
> 
> Is JavaScript really needed in the web-view in Nautilus?
> ie. do people use this as there primary browser?


	Well a lot of people use the News sidebar and browse headlines directly
from there. But I think we need to be sure about whether we intend on
letting Nautilus be used as a full-fledged browser.

	Don't forget however, that after GNOME 1.4, where it was touted as
being full-featured because of the fact it used the mozilla rendering
engine, moving to something much less featured would be viewed as a step
back.


	Of course, I am not sure how much of a concern that really is but we
_definitely_ need a fast and light help browser. I have seen hundreds of
people in the facility I used to administer back at university where
people found it very slow and became very impatient.



	Regards,

		Ravi
	

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