Mozilla Theme Builder Released

icqqm writes: "The people from AlphaNumerica have released their Mozilla theme builder which, of course, runs in Mozilla itself. Looks MUCH easier to use than the horribly complicated instructions fot XML files on Netscape's site" Note that it doesn't work with current builds, but it ought to once the dust settles a bit. I've been using Mozilla more than Navigator these days... Still want to get Galeon working since it looks to be a lot more slimmed down.

Comments

Re:How do you use Mozilla?

[Metrol]

A little factoid for those not following the Mozilla project quite THAT closely. The milestone releases stink. They always have, and probably will continue to do so right up until when they release Moz 1.0 some time 3rd quarter of 2005.

If you're looking for a reasonable snapshot of where Mozilla is at, pop on over to Mozillazine and use the links at the top of their page for the latest nightly download that's functional. Unless you're a third party developer, such as Alphanumerica, the milestones are best forgotten. Pull down a nightly and see what ya think. Love it or hate it, it's generally a much better picture of where this project is actually at.

Re:Future Of Advertising

[Greyfox]

Also, how long before Netscape really does fulfil its goal of becoming the ultimate x-platform OS shell.

Kind of like Emacs?

Funny thing is since they've ported Xemacs to gtk and are working on integrating it with bonobo and they're working on integrating Mozilla with bonobo, you're going to have two applications that think they're operating systems that can communicate with each other via CORBA. Why don't they just add E-Lisp bindings to Mozilla now and be done with it?

Theme Builder is *NOT* a part of Mozilla.

[jelwell]

First off, some comments are suggesting that "Mozilla" should be focused on X rather than a theme builder. This is just mis-informed. The theme builder was created by a third party, and is not part of the Mozilla tree. Alphanumerica (now owned by Collab.net) created this theme builder as a demonstration of how the Mozilla platform can be used to create applications. In this case an application that helps configure the look and feel of Mozilla itself.

There are many other applications that are being developed using the Mozilla platform. A few of note are: a Jabber client, a News Reader like interface for web forums (such as Slashdot), and various games (mostly 2d recreations of classics).

Just keep in mind that these *third* party applications being developed using the Mozilla platform does not slow down, or detract from the development of Mozilla. In fact, they can actually help: these new, outside, developers are actually testing and submitting bugs on the Mozilla platform (Html Rendering Engine, Networking code, etc.) while creating their applications -- which in turns helps Mozilla developers increase the stability of Mozilla itself.

Joseph Elwell.

Re:Theme, schmeme. Where's the "Open" button?

[crumley]

Because when I have text selected from an xterm where I'm reading news or mail or whatever on a different system, I can just left-click the open button then middle-click the URL into the window and left-click "Open" without having to use the keyboard at all. Three clicks - no waiting.

But it can be even easier than this! Just select the URL in your xterm, and click with the middle mouse button almost anywhere. (The only places you can't click are places where the middle mouse button already has a different meaning - i.e. text boxes, scroll bars, etc.)

This is much quicker and easier than waiting for a dialog box to pop up, and having to click right in it.

Re:Clue

[cylab]

no no, mozilla is not dead...
it comes slowly, but powerfull. what you hear now is the sound of a stampede, just hiding behind the hill.

there are numerous reasons for that:

• mozilla runs on nearly all platforms
• mozilla is much more stable in m17, so there is MUCH progress at this issue
• mozilla is much faster in m17, so this point will be improved, too
• the mozilla-exe can be run without installation
• mozilla can implement coporate design
• mozilla makes the newest technologie (like xml and componental-structure) usable on every platform

i had a discussion with a friend about a project, where large amounts of preformatted text must be categorized and made searchable for cdrom publishing. the view application and the displayed text shall have the corporate design of the publishing company.

it all comes down, that we need to categorize the text with xml-tags and make some stylesheets for diplay of the categories and their content in the different search-masks. than we need to find a offline xml-viewer, that runs on all desired platforms and some kind of script language to implement the functionality. nice would be a sdk for changing the viewers look n feel, to match the corporate design... and it should be really cheap..

hmmm... think for your self... mozilla is not only cool, because its ..eh.. cool; its cool, because it implements features, that are really needed by companies... at least needed in the near future (..ok, this is good for mozilla ;) )

cylab