On: Mozilla Is Hiring a Developer to Work on Thunderbird Full-Time

[tomc1985]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo! XUL is really cool. Still one of my favorite GUI kits. It is like electron (but actually native!) and had a good reason to be slow (spidermonkey wasn't super fast) :(

XPCOM kinda sucked but it is still better than MS COM

[sp332 → tomc1985]

It's not that XUL was bad, exactly. But priorities have changed to security, battery life, and multi-threaded performance. The weight of XUL cruft that has built up over time was holding the project back.

[DonHopkins → sp332]

Do you think using XML external entities declared in DTD files for localization was a good idea?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Tu...

[DonHopkins → tomc1985]

How was XPCOM better than MS COM? Feature set? Nope. Tooling? Nope. Language support? Nope. Ecosystem? Nope. OLE components? Nope. Distributed COM? Nope. Doesn't trigger knee-jerk anti-Microsoft reactionaries even though it's a shallow clone of Microsoft technology? Check.

Did you know that "decomification" was a word?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194385

[tomc1985 → DonHopkins]

XPCOM was better mainly because it was Mozilla docs instead of Microsoft. I was doing MS COM in a previous job and I swear MSDN is written in sanskrit

[adjagu → tomc1985]

I miss the old easter eggs Firefox had. https://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.x...

[sp332 → adjagu]

about:mozilla still works.

[adjagu → sp332]

Thank you for this. I had forgotten about the about: pages.

[DrPhish → sp332]

about:about shows that about:robots still works, at least

[adjagu → DrPhish]

Thank you. I hadn't seen the about:robots page before.

[cpeterso → sp332]

and about:robots

[adjagu → cpeterso]

Thank you for this. At least we can hope that Mozilla's version of SkyNet should at least be human friendly.