[Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

[Tomeu Vizoso]

2009/5/29 Lucian Branescu <lucian.branescu at gmail.com>:
> Not that I know of. I tried running several on Firefox 3.5 beta, none works.
>
> I guess someone could create a wrapper when all major browsers (except
> IE of course) have all/most of the features of Gears. JavaScript ORMs
> for example, tend to be able to use several backends (Gears, AIR, HTML
> 5 storage storage, etc.), but the application would have to use one of
> those ORMs.
>
> But for now, it's easier to just install Gears. My problem is almost
> solved, Tomeu told me that he managed to manually install Gears for
> hulahop after fixing a pyxpcom bug.

Once this patch gets into a release usable by us, Gears should work
fine in Browse:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495441

We may be able to apply it to distros if needed.

Regards,

Tomeu

> 2009/5/29 Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/5/29 Lucian Branescu <lucian.branescu at gmail.com>:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Maybe modern GG applications have such wrapper?
>>
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