[Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

2010-03-21 Thread Lucian Branescu
Some have expressed concern about Browse and its current xulrunner dependency (http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1850). To make matters even worse for the future, Mozilla plans to get rid of XPCOM at some point in favour of better JavaScript interfacing to C++ and a JavaScript ffi similar to ctypes.

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

2010-03-21 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
Lucian Branescu wrote: > I am inclined to choose the second for a few reasons. First, current webkit > is much faster and uses less memory than current gecko, which has been > especially visible on XOs. I'm not willing to accept this as proven. As for faster, see http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/bz

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

2010-03-21 Thread Lucian Branescu
On 22 March 2010 00:12, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: > Lucian Branescu wrote: > > I am inclined to choose the second for a few reasons. First, current > webkit > > is much faster and uses less memory than current gecko, which has been > > especially visible on XOs. > > I'm not willing to accept thi

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

2010-03-21 Thread Walter Bender
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: > On 22 March 2010 00:12, Benjamin M. Schwartz > wrote: >> >> Lucian Branescu wrote: >> > I am inclined to choose the second for a few reasons. First, current >> > webkit >> > is much faster and uses less memory than current gecko, which has

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

2010-03-22 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 23:25, Lucian Branescu wrote: > Some have expressed concern about Browse and its current xulrunner > dependency (http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1850). To make matters even > worse for the future, Mozilla plans to get rid of XPCOM at some point in > favour of better JavaSc

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser

2010-03-22 Thread Lucian Branescu
I found this wiki page so far https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mozilla_2/XPCOM_and_Binary_Embedding I should have a chat with the Mozilla people anyway, that page may not be entirely up to date. >From this discussion: 1) Performance tests of recent webkit and xulrunner on XOs and other hardware SoaS runs

Re: [Sugar-devel] [GSoC] Sugar Browser FireFox 6 on ASLO?

2010-03-21 Thread Thomas C Gilliard
FireFox 6 on ASLO? It works on Nightly Composes liveusb-creator 2Gb sticks Tom Gilliard satellit Walter Bender wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Lucian Branescu wrote: On 22 March 2010 00:12, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote: Lucian Branescu wrote: