[Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

[Lucian Branescu]

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.langhoff at gmail.com>:
> 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
>
> From that URL, my understanding is that you get all the things you
> need from gecko itself.
>
>
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