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Creating XUL, really? You cannot create an restricted API for everything, the very point of extensions, plugins, addons is community is always bigger than your
by snaky 8y ago
Creating XUL, really?
You cannot create an restricted API for everything, the very point of extensions, plugins, addons is community is always bigger than your developers team, and much, much more diverse. The 'long tail' effect is what extensions community is about, not '90 per cent of users'. 90 per cent of users might need just a couple of the same extensions, the other 10 per cent of users need a thousand of different extensions.
- tomc1985 8y agoWell, we had XUL (which was awesome), now it's gone
- snaky 8y agoI need to say at least one relatively good thing about Firefox - it has extensions on Android. I don't know for how long but still.
- Endy 8y agoThe community still has XUL thanks to Pale Moon.
- interfixus 8y agoNot really. I stuck to Pale Moon for a while, but it gets untenable: Stuck with dead extensions, or ancient versions of live ones. Left behind with no support for essentials like grid-view display, which the Pale Moon maintainer seems to consider a kind of personal affront. And knowing with close to absolute certainty that you are setting yourself up with a variety of gaping, unpatched security holes.
- Endy 8y agoI haven't found it to be untenable. Then again, it seems that you're worried about maintaining the bleeding edge, and I'm, well, the exact opposite of that. My mantra in terms of technology has been "If it ain't broke, stop trying to fix it" for the last, oh, 4 years or more.
- tomc1985 8y agoXUL the platform should still live on, unless Mozilla pulled the devkit Hmm, now to check up on xulrunner....
- jamesgeck0 8y agoYou can't create a UI that makes everyone happy either. For example, extensions that use the tabs WebExtension API are significantly more varied than the removed Panorama feature.
- snaky 8y ago> You can't create a UI that makes everyone happy either. That's why every software project having a user community has theme support.
- jamesgeck0 8y agoBrowser themes change appearance, not functionality.