[Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

[Martin Langhoff]

2009/5/28 Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>:
> 2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu <lucian.branescu at 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