On 2018-12-22, [email protected] wrote: > First of all, as a Seamonkey user from day one I have to say a big > thanks to all the the people involved in keeping this project alive > and providing such a fantastic web suite for so many years! Your work > is really appreciated and I think most users do fully understand how > much of your time and effort is needed to get this done. > > That being said: after reading the blog update I'm not very optimistic > about the options the seamonkey project has because in my optinion > Seamonkey will have to go for Quantum in order to keep up with the web > standards and new technology. Without an competitive rendering engine > it will not have any future. And if this means that classic extensions > will no longer be supported or loved features will have to be dropped > then it should be done. Because without an up to date engine Seamonkey > will not be able to appeal to new users and long time users will > slowly move on as well. I.e. in my optinion Seamonkey would not have a > future without an up-to-date engine.
Are you really sure nobody would be interested in Seamonkey if it does not chase Firefox? It is okay to prefer it to be this way or that way personally, but I think you're making a big mistake by assuming *nobody* would be interested in the other options. > Would it maybe be possible to build some XUL layer on top of Quantum? > I mean a way to still provide the needed interfaces for XUL, but in > the end render everything using the new engine? > > In any case, I think it would be better to spend effort into migration > to something future oriented, even if it means to lose loved features > or functionality, than to spend the effort in keeping something > outdated alive. > > Whatever the future of the Seamonkey project will be, I'm very > thankful for the people caring for the project and supporting it. > You're all great! > > Ant schrieb: >> https://blog.seamonkey-project.org/2018/12/19/updating-everyone/ -- Nuno Silva _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
