[Sugar-devel] Gears in Browse

Tomeu Vizoso tomeu at sugarlabs.org
Fri May 29 04:15:16 EDT 2009


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because it has been superseded by the new stuff in mozilla?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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>> >  martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
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>> >
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