Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client

Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by ZenoArrow on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @08:30AM (#10655114)

> " When you take an app that's been worked on for 15 or so years and then replace it's UI you're going to lose a TON of features. "

What makes you think they'll drop XUL as soon as the first release of the HTML-based UI? It's pretty obvious they'd want to support both until the HTML UI was close to feature complete. You're finding problems where there aren't any.

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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by betteringred on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @08:48AM (#10655231)

Have you ever met a team that wants to support two things instead of one? :) No one wants to support the old stuff, especially when no one's paying for it. If they make staying with the old too convenient, people won't convert to the crappy new, and their adoption graphs will suck! Can't have cannibalism!

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Re:Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client by ZenoArrow on Tuesday December 01, 2015 @08:50AM (#10655242)

> "Have you ever met a team that wants to support two things instead of one?"

It happens all the time. Do you really need me to point out examples?

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