The hope was that we might eventually be able to come up with an
embedding package that did not have to include the RDF library. I don't
believe this is yet a strong goal for the Mozilla 1.0 go-around, so we
can probably live with the status quo for a while.
Bill Law wrote:
> Unfortunately, the Helper Applications prefs panel relies on RDF to
> present its tree view. Plus, there's some C++ code that uses RDF to
> access this data. I'm not sure we have time to reimplement that stuff...
>
> Judson Valeski wrote:
>
>> law was telling us the other day, that an RDF datasource is used in
>> the helper
>> application logic. We should change this format to something else
>> though. RDF is
>> pretty heavyweight for just mime type to app mapping.
>
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