[Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

[Lucian Branescu]

I think they're just a bit slow. They would break existing Gears
applications if they relied on the mozilla stuff without at least a
wrapper.

2009/5/29 Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org>:
> 2009/5/28 Felipe López Toledo <zer.subzero at gmail.com>:
>>>Heh, I didn't know LocalStorage had been in Firefox for so long
>> me too.
>> here is an useful link about DOM
>> Storage https://developer.mozilla.org/En/DOM:Storage
>>>Again, this should be sufficient for Karma-in-Firefox
>> anyway, I'm looking how to get running GG with Browse
>
> Btw, seems like there's no GoogleGears release for FF 3.5. Perhaps
> because it has been superseded by the new stuff in mozilla?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
>> 2009/5/28 Lucian Branescu <lucian.branescu at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > m
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