Netscape 6 Themes Contest Underway!Wednesday August 9th, 2000With the release of Netscape 6 PR2 comes the start of the Netscape 6 Themes Contest. Grand Prize is a Philips Plasma-Screen TV, Second Prize is a Sony Digital Camera, Third Prize is an iBook Special Edition, and the prize for Honorable Mention (10 awarded) is a Diamond Rio PMP300 Special Edition. You may also find your skin included in the final release of Netscape 6! If you're interested in creating a Mozilla skin, why not submit it to the contest as well? You might just walk away a winner. Visit the Themes Contest page now to learn more about the rules, the prizes, and detailed instructions and tutorials on how to create a Mozilla full-app skin. The contest ends September 30th, so get to work! UPDATE: There are also versions of the page translated into Japanese, German and French. That TV is worth almost $10,000. I am definitely going to enter, but I need to know if can we submit entire chrome packages (XUL, JS, CSS & images) or just the CSS and Images (i.e. skin)? Dan If I won the grand prize, could they just give me enough iBooks to equal the value of the television? I'm going to take a month off from work a build the coolest skin on earth. In Rules Page, No.3. Thay say 'Note that you should not change the bookmarks, task bar and the default "My Sidebar" tabs.' What does it mean? I cab change the style of bookmarks, taskbar and sidebar but cannot change the content, right? That is an amazing skin they have on the top of the front page! Why have a contest, when it's clearly the winner! http://home.netscape.com/ja/themes/ there is Japanese information. is threr other language version? Why is the approximate retail value of the third prize higher than that of the second prize? I wondered that, too.... Maybe they assume that to enter such a contest, people will already have computers, but people won't necessarily have digital camcorders? If it was possible, and it isn't, I'd rather have a big screen TV (non-plasma), the digital camcorder, AND the iBook, which would still cost significantly less than the plasma TV. :) From the rules, it looks like you can substitute the estimated cash value of the prize in American Express Gift Cheques. They can be used almost the same as cash (except they are traceable in case they are stolen) I quote.... No prize substitution except by Sponsor due to unavailability (in which case a prize of comparable or greater value will be awarded) or as follows: winners residing outside of the United States will receive the retail value of the prize in American Express Gift Cheques; if winner resides in a country in which American Express Gift Cheques are not freely negotiable, a substitute prize of comparable or greater value will be awarded. Clearly, winners inside the United States have no choice as to their prize. And winners outside the United States have no choice as to whether they get Gift Cheques or not. Is it weird to want to win 2nd place in a contest, because the 1st place prize is much less usable? I could find MANY uses for a digital camcorder, but a plasma TV is, well, a plasma TV. :) "I could find MANY uses for a digital camcorder, but a plasma TV is, well, a plasma TV. :)" But you can sell the TV on ebay for $4,000-$6,000 and have enough for the digital camera and a new computer. Dan Anyone thought of creating a number of other contests to highlight Moz's/Netscape 6's flexibilty, opened source, etc.? Themes are great, but what about "most usefull feature", "most bug fixes", etc., by a non-paid member of the Moz community. If opposed, you could just send me a prize and I'll shut up ;-) . I posted this request as a response to the article about the direction the Classic skin should take, but i'm posting it again because this seems like a more appropriate place. I don't have the graphical talent, so the only thing i can do is beg someone to make a NeXT skin, with NeXT icons, colors, widgets, etc. this is exactly what i would expect from mozilla: a complete waste of everyone's time. everyone who ends up spending time on this would be doing mozilla a much bigger favor finding and fixing bugs. one of internet explorer's primary advantages is the absence of a distinct appearance. it just seems like part of the os. mozilla should be like that as well. >this is exactly what i would expect from mozilla: a complete waste of everyone's time. Tell that to the winners of the contest. Seriously, why is Neoplanet so popular if everything has to blend in with the OS all of the time? Although I agree that Mozilla should default to the Classic skin, skinning is a good thing, because not everyone agrees with you. Heck, we get it for free with XUL, so why not? > one of internet explorer's primary > advantages is the absence of a > distinct appearance. it just seems > like part of the os. mozilla should > be like that as well. Somehow, skinning hasn't hurt WinAmp any. There are *no* skins for WinAmp that make it actually look like a real Windows app. Even the "Windows 95" and "98" skins are crude hacks, and don't really fit in with other parts. I agree with you, however, that reporting and fixing bugs would be a whle lot more productive. People were complaining about the appearance of Mozilla. I think this is Netscape's way of solving that problem. Also, there are people who, like me, would not spend time fixing bugs unless they were being paid. However, they might try to make the web browser look good in exchange for an expensive prize. Finally, while this is what you would expect of Mozilla, it is not what I would expect of Mozilla. If it was a typical Mozilla contest, the grand prize would probably be a T-shirt with a screenshot of the theme ironed onto it. The second prize would probably be a T-shirt with a picture of the television on it. test The skin contest is/will be great. But are any skins available for download RIGHT NOW? I can't find any around the Netsape site or here... I'm sure there will be a site once the contest ends, but I'm not that patient... There are a lot of cool 'themes' here... http://x.themes.org/viewresources.phtml?type=chrome and there is obviously something wrong with how mozilla displays stuff in text boxes. the text doesn't display correctly.. I have to either go back and highlight it to make what I'm typing appear, or wait for it to randomly draw what I've been typing. Quite frustrating, really. Does anyone know if this is a reported bug? Just noticed it when I was typing this message... Scott We should probably just take a dive into Bugzilla, but I've also encountered such problems. The saddest thing was when I tried to build a "reflowing" textarea - extending and contracting whenever the textmass is modified. Works in explorer; and that's not my primary target for the finished app (an xml-editing thing). |