[Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

[Tomeu Vizoso]

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.

I'm also interested in knowing better how to support extensions in
Browse. I can dedicate a couple of hours today to get GG running in
Browse.

Regards,

Tomeu

> 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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