This is one of the reasons I started to breathe new life in the Chromeless project[1], but with a grander scope this time around. I’d like to facilitate a pragmatic migration route to building desktop apps with XULRunner using only the latest Web technologies, including asm.js and WebGL+WebVR.
Due to my work on Australis, Loop/ Hello and the move to a new house eating away my spare time too, this project got stalled quite a bit as I can/ could only work on it then. I hope to be able to pick up this work again soon! Perhaps this project offers a likeable middle-ground solution to still allow for a Mozilla SDK to exist, while not needing to maintain the entire XUL stack. Mike. [1] https://github.com/mikedeboer/chromeless2 On 15 Oct 2014, at 15:03, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > On 10/15/14, 5:01 AM, glazou wrote: >> w/o even trying to discuss with >> them the situation, the possibilities, the alternatives, the ETA, >> the transition plan. > > The situation is that we have a bunch of unmaintained code that complicates > layout. And layout needs no extra complications; it has enough as it is. So > again, on a purely technical level we would like to get rid of this code. > > I'm happy to discuss possibilities and alternatives, of course. Any ideas? > > There is no ETA, and no concrete transition plan past the one Bobby and I > outlined upthread. > >> That will require an enormous investment that most embedders won't be >> able to cope with. > > I don't think that long-term (think decades, not years) Mozilla can cope with > the investment of having the XUL support we have in the rendering engine > right now.... > > -Boris > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
