I agree that the GUI must be good looking to get users to switch, however, a browser doesn't live by GUI alone. Even more important are the features and functionality. That's the part of the project being worked on the most right now. The current default UI is made to be functional and nothing else. The idea of having a very good default UI has already been talked about at MozillaZine.org. (It's in the Old News section now and is the largest thread they've ever seen over there, I do NOT recomend taking the time to read through it as it is very redundant [It's more of an argument than an informative discution, but a few good points came out of it]).
It has something to do with the way that MS made windows... Windows 9x isn't really a 32 bit OS, it's a 16 bit OS with a 32 bit overlay. That makes it convienent in this case to just have apprunner (a dos based app) load the browser and then revieve and display debugging info. I use a similar apporoach in order to have batch file run windows apps. It may seem kinda old fashioned (realatively speaking), but it gets the job done, and somewhat efficiently and easily. As for the apprunner, it won't be there when this things goes beta (at least I don't think it will).
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I agree that the GUI must be good looking to get users to switch, however, a browser doesn't live by GUI alone. Even more important are the features and functionality. That's the part of the project being worked on the most right now. The current default UI is made to be functional and nothing else. The idea of having a very good default UI has already been talked about at MozillaZine.org. (It's in the Old News section now and is the largest thread they've ever seen over there, I do NOT recomend taking the time to read through it as it is very redundant [It's more of an argument than an informative discution, but a few good points came out of it]).
It has something to do with the way that MS made windows... Windows 9x isn't really a 32 bit OS, it's a 16 bit OS with a 32 bit overlay. That makes it convienent in this case to just have apprunner (a dos based app) load the browser and then revieve and display debugging info. I use a similar apporoach in order to have batch file run windows apps. It may seem kinda old fashioned (realatively speaking), but it gets the job done, and somewhat efficiently and easily. As for the apprunner, it won't be there when this things goes beta (at least I don't think it will).