said:
Hi,
>It's hard to believe that SeaMonkey is that different from Thunderbird
>and Firefox.
Why? You might want to poke around the Mozilla site and read a bit about
the design objectives of the Mozilla project.
All the Mozilla based applications share the same base source code, but
the flexibility of the overall design and things like XUL and extensions
allow the user interface to be vastly different without an extreme amount
of effort.
>It seems almost comical how we, as OS/2
>users, can have so few modern programs, but such a wide choice of
>browsers.
It's not funny. It's just business. We have the good fortune that IBM
had customers that paid for much of the porting effort. The ongoing
avialability is thanks to the maintainers, such as Peter and Mike and
others, that continue to give of their time and energy so that others can
benefit.
>(But maybe you ought to consider going back to the "Mozilla suite", or
>at least installing it for comparison purposes. Some of the questions
>asked here have simple answers with SeaMonkey.)
They probably have simple answers too for TB and FF. The answers are
often extenstions. The baseline builds of TB and FF are stripped down on
purpose.
Over time the "must have" extensions will find their way back into the
baseline builds. This is part of the evolution of the applications.
Steven
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