ideas for Mozilla integration

[Charles Crawford]

Part of the problem here is that the user base of Linux with speech is 
expanding.  It is neither realistic nor even appropriate to expect that the 
users will be writing code.  That is like selling a cake mix which requires 
that every person go off to the wheat fields to gather up the crop just to 
bake the cake.  Somewhere between Windows doing everything for us and Linux 
just providing a set of tools for us to use, the average user is going to 
want a self configuring system with a range of options not provided by 
Windows.  I will have to visit the freedom box web site to check out all 
this stuff.

-- Charlie Crawford.
At 05:19 AM 04/26/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>Hi.  From what I understand, Freedombox is using interfaces that are
>already a part of Mozilla.  They haven't modified Mozilla, just written
>an app to use the accessibility interfaces in the browzer.  You can
>write the same program if you want to learn the interfaces and take the
>time.
>Deciding to complain because someone else wrote a program you want (and
>can  write for yourself) just makes you look bad and accomplishes
>nothing.
>
>The best thing to come from Freedombox is to show that the problem with
>Mozilla access isn't because of lack of hooks in Mozilla.  If
>Gnopernicus doesn't give the same access to Mozilla as Freedombox then
>it is a Gnome/Gnopernicus problem instead of the "problem with Mozilla"
>the Gnome developers claim.
>
>I don't like using a commercial product to access Mozilla, but I've been
>promised access from the Gnome accessibility project for almost 2 years.
>Until I decide to write my own program, Freedombox will get my business
>just because they have results.  Maybe there will be access from Gnome
>some day, but I'm not holding my breath.
>If you want to start demanding things from a group I think the Gnome
>Accessibility Project should be contacted first.  At the least,
>demanding Gnome Accessibility stop over marketing their product would be
>a good thing.
>
>           Kenny
>
>On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 02:36:38PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> > Hi all. This entire discussion on the Freedombox added component for
> > Mozilla has prompted me to think long and hard about the ethics of not
> > releasing the modification to the Mozilla project community. My belief
> > is to have the speech component integrated into the main Mozilla
> > browser, without one having to register with Freedombox just to have
> > access to Mozilla. As a result, I am planning to allert the Mozilla
> > project developers so that they can personally contact Matt Campbell
> > regarding the addition. Anyone agree/disagree? I plan to do this over
> > the next 1/2 days. I also believe that the Mozilla developers are
> > probably trying to re-invent the wheel, and yet here it is the added
> > component...Already doing what the developers are presumably attempting
> > to accomplish.
> > --
> > Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
> >
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