[Phoenix] Toward a XULRunner-based Etna

[Andreas Wuest]

On 9.5.2006 23:41 Uhr, Michael Wechner wrote:

> Andreas Wuest wrote:
> 
>> On 7.5.2006 0:39 Uhr, Michael Wechner wrote:
>>
>>> Andreas Wuest wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> As it looks now, Etna is going to migrate to XULRunner (which is 
>>>> IMHO a wise decision since it's allone-app).
>>>
>>> sorry if I might sound lazy, but what is XULRunner? I see that 
>>> ChatZilla also
>>> seems to be based on XULRunner.
>>
>> XULRunner (http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner) "is a 
>> Mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap XUL+XPCOM 
>> applications that are as rich as Firefox and Thunderbird. It will 
>> provide mechanisms for installing, upgrading, and uninstalling these 
>> applications. XULRunner will also provide libxul, a solution which 
>> allows the embedding of Mozilla technologies in other projects and 
>> products."
>>
>> In other words, it is a platform to run applications based on 
>> XUL/XPCOM and the standard Mozilla Platform libraries (networking, 
>> etc.) as stand-alone apps. I.e., this doesn't require them to be an 
>> extension of an existing application like Firefox/SeaMonkey/etc. 
>> anymore, and one can run them without having such a base application 
>> installed.
> 
> ok, but how do we integrate Firefox?

Well, basically, not at all. I am not sure if they are planning to use 
XULRunner as their only platform, or if they maintain a version for 
integration with a web browser (Firefox/SeaMonkey extension) plus the 
stand-alone version based on XULRunner.

However, should they be switching to XULRunner exclusively, then they 
are definitely heading for a stand-alone version, which, of course, 
wouldn't bridge the gap between browsing and editing.

XTech 2066 will tell (hopefully).

-- 
Kind regards,
Andi