[Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

[Lucian Branescu]

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
- WorkerPool - threads. The WHATWG HTML 5 spec does include provisions
for WebWorkers, but they aren't really supported anywhere yet
- Geolocation - no equivalent
- Desktop - shortcuts, file access, etc - not very relevant for Sugar,
at least not without modifications

However, even if Gecko had all the features Gears already has, there
are web applications that rely on Gears APIs specifically. Wrappers
would be needed and they usually aren't quite complete.

It's better to just try to get Gears working, at least for my project.
I guess Karma could use a JavaScript ORM that can use both Gears and
HTML 5 storage as a backend.

2009/5/28 Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>:
> 2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu <lucian.branescu at gmail.com>:
>> For both Webified and Karma, Gears support in Browse is necessary (or
>> at least preferred), but AFAIK there is currently no strategy to get
>> it running.
>
> If I understand correctly, the 'HTML5' extensions push means that the
> core gecko gets facilities that look almost exactly like
> GoogleGears... because they are GG-derived code.
>
> So I suspect that if we get a new-enough xulrunner, this problem goes away :-)
>
> cheers,
>
>
> m
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