[sugar] (another) WebKit port of Browse

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

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C. Scott Ananian wrote:
| On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at tomeuvizoso.net> wrote:
|> We could add many more of the missing features to Browse if all the
|> developers weren't so busy with the rest of Sugar. Also, although most
|> of the sugar developers have occasionally hacked on Browse, we are far
|> from experts in the big piece of code that Mozilla is.
|
| This was my original point.  We either have sufficient resources to
| develop our own browser, or we don't.  I think it will (in the end) be
| more efficient to develop small Firefox extensions to support Journal
| integration and collaboration, rather than taxing the sugar developers
| with an attempt to (basically) reimplement large parts of firefox.

I disagree.  I expect that these two options will require a very similar
amount of code... but one of them is already largely complete (if beta),
while the other is hypothetical.

Browse a custom UI on XULRunner, with brand-new code for sharing and
datastore access.  Moving that code into extensions doesn't reduce the
amount of code.  Neither of these scenarios is more "our own browser" than
the other.

- --Ben
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