[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 9, 2004, at 9:29 AM, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Yes, we could do that, *but* I don't like that approach for several 
> reasons, the most important:
>
> How to put additional widgets into that dialog, when there are 3 or 
> even more dialog versions (for different platforms) available,
> and you don't even have the docs for it? I could add things to the 
> win32 dialog, but I don't have the knowledge to do this for a MAC OS.
>
> This is one problem of a cross platform development, and I would tend 
> to keep the platform code as close together as even possible.

See Gerald Combs' idea:

	http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200311/msg00481.html

for defining the Ethereal GUI in XUL, and having scripts generate code 
from the XUL for various UIs.