<html><head></head><body>this is so true. I've seen exactly that.<br>
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i like gerv's idea as last stop emergency measure. it's the heart transplant option for a dying patient on ICU (intensive care unit) who will otherwise surely die I short order.<br>
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I want a fresh and agile project and app that can live another 20 years and still be attractive.<br>
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In other words, it's time for thunderbird to have a child :-)<br>
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Ben<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Am 5. Februar 2018 20:29:11 MEZ schrieb Magnus Melin <mkmelin+mozilla@iki.fi>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On 03-02-2018 15:26, Gervase Markham wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 03/02/18 13:23, Eyal Rozenberg wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> Disagree about the method of achieving speed and stability. For the<br /> Thunderbird dev community to maintain a fork of a rendering engine seems<br /> like over-reaching.<br /></blockquote> I'm not sure if this idea has ever been discussed - maybe it has.<br /><br /> The difficulty with maintaining an ever-more-distant fork of a rendering<br /> engine such as Gecko has always been said to be "security updates". And<br /> that is a clear concern.<br /><br /> What if... Thunderbird forked Gecko and froze it, running most of the<br /> app and the UI on top, and then embedded a second, maintained,<br /> embeddable, lightweight rendering engine which dealt with all untrusted<br /> content? Such as Servo?<br /></blockquote><br />While security updates is certainly a large part of it, there is a lot <br />of more things surrounding it. It's the whole platform.<br /><br />What's referred to casually as Gecko here is perhaps not clearly <br />defined, but I imagine that in all scenarios what you'd end up with is <br />an unattractive platform. Imagine if there had been a fork 5 years ago <br />and no JavaScript features after that were available for us internally. <br />That's not a platform attracting developers. It's just a dead end.<br /><br /> -Magnus<br /><br /><hr /><br />tb-planning mailing list<br />tb-planning@mozilla.org<br /><a href="https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/tb-planning">https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/tb-planning</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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