- From: Matthew Brealey <webmaster@richinstyle.com>
- Date: 5 Oct 2000 09:08:47 -0000
- To: www-style@w3.org
You wrote: > On 4 Oct 2000, Matthew Brealey wrote: > >> I would expect that a final release of a Mac product would > address such > >> issues, which might not be worth addressing until that point. > > > > You are remarkably prescient. I just downloaded the PR3, and it\\\'s > > 2500 files smaller than current Mozilla (still 500 files though with > > Live3d, Oops. That wasn\'t in there at all, but was from my Netscape 3 install. The Netscape6 directory is actually 274 files. > Java etc). However, this sucks because it\\\'s less > power to the > > user; before it was easy to edit the skins, but now > they\\\'re locked up > > in .jars. > > Saying the files are \"locked up\" is a little ignorant, given > that there has been ample explanation in the mozilla.org community > on the simple steps required to unpackage the jars and run without > them. (Hint: You need an unzipping tool and a text editor.) That\'s true. But people who aren\'t aware of this (i.e. the majority of people) won\'t realise, whereas the previous state, raw files allowed the uninitiated to look around.
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