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Patch Maker -- Mozilla Hacking & Patching Made

Posted by Hemos on from the tweaking-it-out dept.

A reader writes: " Mozillaquest.com has an article about Patch Maker which is a new Perl script that let's you hack the Mozilla UI using JS, CSS, and XUL. You do not have to download or compile the source code or pull CVS. It makes writing and submitting Mozilla UI patches easier."

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  1. UGH by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The worst terrorist attack ever just happened less than a month ago, and the start of WW3 is going on as I type this, and you people are talking about a Perl script for Mozilla?!?

    I'm sure the people who were crushed under 100 stories fo steel are interested in Mozilla, and the ragheads getting bombed right now are just as equally interested in Perl.

    My god, get your priorities straight!

  2. Off Topic, but necessary by Wire+Tap · · Score: 0, Troll
    The worst terrorist attack ever just happened less than a month ago, and the start of WW3 is going on as I type this, and you people are talking about a Perl script for Mozilla?!?

    You are absolutely right, we should not worry about things that are "necessary" for our world to continue as it does, and instead just spend all our time and effort being concerned with the attacks/military action.

    WRONG. That is exactly what the terrorists want us to do - that will give them a higher degree of satisfaction. In order to give them the symbolic finger, we have to persist in our day-to-day activities. After all, there are people to whom our tax dollars go who work on the issues at large.

    To beat this horse just a little bit more, don't forget that the Slashdot community was perhaps the greatest beacon for information when the attacks took place. I am sure that it will continue to play an appropriate role as things unfold, but it's wheels will never stop turning. That's what makes it, and America so great, we never sit down and take it.

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  3. Mozilla is still poop by kastaverious · · Score: 0, Troll

    And everyone knows it

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  4. Re:Thoughts on MozillaQuest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Do you know anything? Do you have any of the following?
    • Common sense
    • ability to reason
    • human decency
    ?
    Judging by the fact that you support StupidassQuest.com I can only infer that the answer to the above is a resounding NO!
  5. Re:Thoughts on MozillaQuest by kastaverious · · Score: 0, Troll
    I don't know for sure they have nothing to gain, but I find it unlikely that they do. Even if that was the case, quite a lot of what they say is true. Mozilla is a pretty piss-poor example of an open source project, I don't think anyone being honest could say development pace has been swift, and conducted in a well ordered, logical way.

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  6. Re:Thoughts on MozillaQuest by kastaverious · · Score: -1, Troll
    If you are going to do a comparison, at least be consistent. None of the code for IE 2 was used in versions 4/5, and very little code from version 3 was used. Given this, IE has come to the position it is in sooner than you make out.


    Further to this, you can discount the beos 'port' as it does not work-have you tried it? Ie is available for Windows, MAC and selected *.nix platforms.


    Mozilla has also supposedly benifited from being open source. This is supposed to mean quicker development as bugs get documented and fixed more quickly. Mozilla has had a lot of coders working on it for a long time now, and it still feels alpha quality.

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  7. Re:WILL YOU SLASHDOT GUYS LEARN??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    no humor allowed on attack-day?