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-> Version .10 - 08-11-00
Screen captures were taken of the Navigator 3 nav-buttons. The underlying
button structure was created. Gave the "Url Box" down to its own toolbar
and updated the view menu to reflect this. Shifted the status bar around
in an effort to give it a more Nav3-like layout. Spent some time skinning
the look of the pull-down menus. Removed that ugly "Search" button.
-> Version .10a - 08-20-00
Wow, those xul changes broke the modern skin more badly than I thought they
would. Did some work on patching the modern skin back together, so it
wouldn't look quite as bad. Fixed a minor glitch on the status bar.
Replaced the "ub-history button", with one that pops up a histroy menu
that's similar to the one that appears in the "Go" pull-down menu. This
was done as an effort to replace some of the lost functionality from
when I killed the "dropmarkers" on the forward and back buttons.
-> Version .20 - 08-23-00
Did a rewrite of the xul changes. This should make it a little less
preditory towards other skins. As a result it took a lot less work to
"fix up" the modern skin this time around. Cut a couple of chains of
inheritance in Navigator directory. This should pay off in the
long-run. Reskinned the Nav-Buttons. As a result, they look much closer
to the originals.
-> Version .20a - 08-27-00
Skinned the Personal toolbar buttons, and disabled the home and bookmark
buttons.
-> Version .30 09-08-00
Many changes happened in Mozilla's skin since Milestone 17. Parts of my
my package needed to modified, some of it was redone from scratch.
Finally got an xpi installer working. Since a lot of changes to the
"new modern" skin are still in progress, no "fixedup" version of the
modern skin was provided with this package.
-> Version .30a 09-18-00
More changes to Mozilla broke my package. Patched it back together, for
now.
-> Version .40 10-29-00
Finally got around to making a Milestone 18 compatible version. Basically
I brought everything up to date, as well as re-vamping the way I
implemented the Navigation buttons. The "dropmarkers" on the forward and
back buttons are back, as well. I plan on adding an "images" button as
soon as the Mozilla folks get the "load images" feature implemented.
-> Version .80 02-25-01
Finally, I repeat, Finally, got around to updating this thing to be
compatible with Mozilla 0.8 The functionality is mostly the same. The
underlying structure is a little bit different, though. I made a
completely new image set for the Navigation Buttons. This will make a
future "pictures-only" version possible. Netscape 3-style security icons
were added as well. In addition, the installer now includes copies of
dereg.xpi and rereg.xpi and places them in the chrome directory. This
will make undoing, and redoing the XUL changes much easier when people
want to try out different themes.
-> Version .80po 02-25-01
The "pictures-only" version is complete.
-> Version .82 04-22-01 (20010421200)
Haven't had much time to work on Mozilla lately, so this one was a rush
job. There is no installer, (it probably wouldn't work anyway on the
current builds). At this time no pictures only version, either (maybe if
I get some time later)
-> Verion .899 05-05-01 (20010504077 .9 Candidate Build)
After a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth I managed to get something
that was actually compatible with Mozilla's jar installer. Had to
completely revamp the directory stucture and write one master contents.rdf
file. This would've been trivial if I had proper documentation or another
theme to learn from. The former will never happen. The latter didn't
happen because x.themes.org was having a few glitches related to their
move to a different server. Luckily the Mozilla developers haven't done
anything in the past two weeks to bust my chrome/theme. The chrome and
skin files that I used are virually identical to what I used in .82
The downside to all of this is that the friggen thing is harder to
install. The upside is that it's far easier to get rid of, if a person
want's to uninstall it. Since the install process is all-together
different, and since my webpage has been showing its age, I ended up
rewriting large swaths of it.
-> Version .90 05-29-01
With milestone .91 still a few weeks out in the future, I decided to
experiment with some ideas on the .899 files. Then I noticed a proposed
patch, on bugzilla, to fix bug #22056. After adding the proposed patches
to Ultra Classic, I found that it worked great. Not knowing if any of
this would work properly on .91, I decided that this warranted a release
right away. Since bug #22056 has been patched, the
"images / text / images and text" pref is working. To try it out, go into
preferences / appearance and pick the "radio-button" of your choice. Made
a number of changes to the user interface, as well. The scrollbars are
now slightly larger, giving them a look similar to the way they would look
if this were a "native windows" app. To make the UI look more
classic-like, I removed the "grippies", and removed the line that
separates the url-toolbar from the personal-toolbar. The status-bar, and
the personal-toolbar's buttons were changed, as well, to give them a more
Netscape3-like appearance. Found a better way to align the personal
toolbar, and then re-aligned all of the toolbars. I kept the
"dropmarkers" on the back and forward buttons. Not that I find them
useful, but some people do. As in the past I stuck with the smaller
Communicator4-like dropmarkers instead of the big, ugly ones used in the
Classic theme and in ie5, (borrowing code from the Modern theme, believe
it or not) but moved the dropmarkers to the top of the buttons in order to
make them "less annoying".
-> Version .92 07-02-01
Unfortunately the patch for Bug #22056 which I used in Ultra Classic .90
is not compatible with later versions of Mozilla. Because of this, the
patch was left out of this release. The online/offline icon was replaced
with a "Netscape Navigator wheel" icon. I mapped it to the function that
pops open a new browser window. Found a way to eliminate that annoying
"Netscape Search" thingy that always pops up when you enter a url. Now
nothing pops out of the url textbox, unless "autocomplete" is enabled.
Note: With "autocomplete" enabled, the "Netscape Search" thing is back.
Other than the changes noted above, the "look and feel" of this release
is nearly identical to what was achieved in Ultra Classic .90
-> Version .92a 07-05-01
Not long after I released .92, an updated patch was posted on Bugzilla to
fix Bug #22056. This patch has been incorporated into Ultra Classic .92a
So, the "pictures / text / pictures and text" pref is once again working.
Also fixed a couple of minor display glitches.
-> Version .93 08-12-01
Ultra Classic has been updated for better compatibiliy with the 0.9.3
Milestone. The bookmark-button's icon was replaced with one that looks
a little better. The url-bar's drop-down window no longer takes up the
full width of the screen. Other than that .93 should act and look like
the previous release.
-> Version .97 02-04-02
A long overdue update. Since the bugzilla patch no longer works with
newer versions of Mozilla the fix for Bug #22056 is not included in this
release. The back and forward buttons no longer have dropmarkers on them.
Right-clicking on those buttons still works, though. The "Find" and
"Open" buttons can now be enabled/disabled under
Edit->Preferences->Navigator
-> Version .98 03-04-02
Despite the fact that this version of Ultra Classic contains no new
features, most of Ultra Classic had to (once again) be rewritten. The
Mozilla developers changed a lot of stuff, under the hood, since the
previous milestone.
-> Version .99 03-15-02
Didn't have to reinvent the entire wheel this time, so things went a lot
quicker and easier. Early development using a 0.9.9 candidate build
didn't hurt either. A slightly modified version of the new Bugzilla
patch has been incorporated into Ultra Classic .99 to fix bug #22056.
As a result, the "pictures / text / pictures and text" pref is once
again working.
-> Version 1.0RC3 06-02-02
Same funtionality as last time. Brought the files up to date as we await
an offical version 1.0 release of Mozilla.
-> Version 1.0 06-29-02
In celebration of an actual V1.0 release of Mozilla, Ultra Classic 1.0 has
been put together as a full-app theme/chrome. Made Nav-3 style icon sets
for Messenger, Composer, and Chatzilla. Whenever possible these icons
were taken from screen captures of Netscape 3. The remaining icons were
painted by hand. A "Find" button was added to Composer and Messenger.
A "Previous" button was added to Messenger. The "Component Bar" can now
be disabled in Messenger/Composer/Chatzilla. Several misc display tweaks
were added for a cleaner, more consistant layout.
-> Version 1.21 12-26-02
This version is also a full-app theme/chrome. Fixed some display problems
with mail-message-compose. Cleaned up the Navigator icon-set. The extra
bugzilla 22056-fix code is no longer needed, since this bug no longer
exists.
-> Version 1.3 Beta 02-12-03
Similar funtionality as before. Files brought up to date. In Mozilla
1.3 Beta, clicking in the blank space on the URL-bar no longer highlights
the entire URL-bar. This annoying feature is disabled in Ultra Classic
1.3 Beta's comm.jar
-> Version 1.3c 02-13-03
It didn't take long to find out that Mozilla 1.3 Beta was a colossal
disaster. Ultra Classic 1.3 Beta was pulled, then Ultra Classic 1.3c
was released using known a good nighly build (#2003013108). Same
functionality as before.
-> Version 1.3f 03-19-03
Same functionality as before. Only a couple of files had to be brought up
to date. The rest was useable as-is.
-> Version 1.4 07-28-03
Added icons on the main toolbar in Composer for cut/copy/paste. Added a
taskbar-cookie icon to Navigator. Fixed the align and insert menubuttons
in Composer. The previous and find buttons that Ultra Classic adds to
"Mail & News" can now be disabled. Brought everything else up to date,
as usual.
-> Version 1.7 08-15-04
No new features. Brought everything up to date and maybe fixed a few bugs
along the way.
-> Version 1.77 04-18-05
No new features. No changes to the theme portion. Changes in 1.7 applied
to the .jar files in Mozilla 1.7.7 to fix compatibility problems. Fixed
bug in Mail/News: when composing a message, the "security" button was to
the right of the animated mozilla icon.