I think they're just a bit slow. They would break existing Gears applications if they relied on the mozilla stuff without at least a wrapper.
2009/5/29 Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org>: > 2009/5/28 Felipe López Toledo <zer.subz...@gmail.com>: >>>Heh, I didn't know LocalStorage had been in Firefox for so long >> me too. >> here is an useful link about DOM >> Storage https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM:Storage >>>Again, this should be sufficient for Karma-in-Firefox >> anyway, I'm looking how to get running GG with Browse > > Btw, seems like there's no GoogleGears release for FF 3.5. Perhaps > because it has been superseded by the new stuff in mozilla? > > Regards, > > Tomeu > >> 2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu <lucian.brane...@gmail.com> >>> >>> Heh, I didn't know LocalStorage had been in Firefox for so long. I was >>> under the impression it was at the same stage as Webkit. Thanks for >>> the link. >>> >>> Again, this should be sufficient for Karma-in-Firefox. >>> >>> But many websites already use Gears specifically, and I need them to >>> work for Webified. >>> >>> 2009/5/28 Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com>: >>> > 2009/5/28 Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com>: >>> >> 2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu <lucian.brane...@gmail.com>: >>> >>> Not really. HTML 5 only brings an SQLite database accessible from >>> >>> JavaScript. >>> >>> >>> >>> Gears has other features that aren't present in Gecko proper (yet): >>> >>> - LocalServer - a way to transparently persist resources locally >>> >> >>> >> I thought HTML5 had some "offline resource" facility. >>> > >>> > What we ship on XO 8.2.x is xulrunner 1.9 (FF3.0). If we were to ship >>> > xulrunner 1.9.1 (which is what the F11-based builds ship anyway) then >>> > we'd get support for the tools listed here >>> > http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Implementations_in_Web_browsers >>> > >>> > From that URL, my understanding is that you get all the things you >>> > need from gecko itself. >>> > >>> > >>> > m >>> > -- >>> > martin.langh...@gmail.com >>> > mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect >>> > - ask interesting questions >>> > - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first >>> > - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff >>> > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Sugar-devel mailing list >> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >> >> > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel