Re: XUL Overlays Removed

2018-07-13 Thread Brian Grinstead
> On Jul 13, 2018, at 3:05 PM, Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote: > > > This is just one piece of the broader XUL removal effort, but it does > > highlight that things can be simpler in a post-XUL world. > > Well I agree that cleaning up overlay usage was overdue. Otherwise the simple > post XUL worl

Re: XUL Overlays Removed

2018-07-13 Thread Frank-Rainer Grahl
> This is just one piece of the broader XUL removal effort, but it does > highlight that things can be simpler in a post-XUL world. Well I agree that cleaning up overlay usage was overdue. Otherwise the simple post XUL world world is just dumb. Removing things without a functional replacement a

Re: XUL Overlays Removed

2018-07-13 Thread Kris Maglione
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 02:10:54PM -0700, Brendan Dahl wrote: This is hopefully the last thing you’ll ever hear about XUL overlays as they have now been completely removed from Firefox[1]. \o/ Thank you to everyone who was involved in this! Removing overlays cut around 3.5K lines of code from

XUL Overlays Removed

2018-07-13 Thread Brendan Dahl
This is hopefully the last thing you’ll ever hear about XUL overlays as they have now been completely removed from Firefox[1]. For those unfamiliar with overlays, they provided a way to merge two XUL documents and were mainly used by legacy extensions and in several places within the Firefox UI. Wh