On 10/31/19 2:31 AM, Daniel wrote:
Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote on 31/10/2019 8:08 AM:
Onno Ekker wrote:
Op 30-10-2019 om 00:08 schreef Frank-Rainer Grahl:
Hawker wrote:
FRG
Could you also elaborate a bit on what's realistic for extension
developers? My extension is compatible with Thunderbird 52, 60 and 68,
and also with SeaMonkey 2.49 and 2.53, but in order to be compatible
with multiple versions I detect the Gecko version and that will probably
fail for SeaMonkey 2.53 when it stays on Gecko 52 (or is it 60?) and it
backports functionality from TB/Gecko 60+.
2.49 is at the end of its life when the first 2.53.1 will be released.
2.53.1 already switched the gecko version to 60 because major websites
are doing more than stupid ua sniffing.
For 2.53.1 we backport but only the "good" stuff. There should be no
breakage if it already works. Things like ChromeUtils.Import have been
backported. The remaining 60 ChromeUtils enhancements are on the list.
Just a matter of time.
2.57 is still way off. We are currently removing rdf support but to be
usable it needs webextension support. I don't have an ETA.
68+ (would be SeaMonkey 2.65) and deprecation of XUL extensions is
currently not being worked on. Frankly I can't tell you what happens
after 2.57. We could make SeaMonkey compatible but this would drop a
lot of current functionality. Currently 68 and up is broken.
Personally I don't care about anything beyond 2.57. Mozilla did a good
job to scare me off with the post 60 changes (and some of the 57 to 60
stupid ones too like viewsource in a tab only).
Any enhancements for 2.53 go into the later releases too. When we are
at 2.57 we need to decide about the future. Can only speak for myself
but I wish I had a firm plan.
In any case nothing to worry about in the, lets say, next 2-3 years.
2.53.1 is working really well and I enjoy working on and with it very
much. I think the same is true for the other team members.
FRG
FRG, thanks for all the work that you and the rest of the Devs are doing
trying to keep SM up-to-date.
But I have two questions that, maybe, you could answer ....
1. The UA of my SM 2.49.5 currently shows its using Gecko/20100101.
Will the 2.53.1 versions show a more current Gecko version ... if it
really matters??
Mozilla changed that part of the UA string with version 4.0 when the
rapid release cycle started.
See:
<https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/09/final-user-agent-string-for-firefox-4/>.
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