On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 10:56 AM, passfree <passf...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I am glad to hear that there is at least one person stepping up to support > xulrunner if a need arises. I also have some apps written on top of xulrunner > but my gut feeling tells me that xul is not the most future-proof technology. > Sadly, it has never been. I hear that xulrunner has also been pulled from > some Linux distributions. > > Needless to say, if you enjoy writing with web technologies but you still > want to build for the desktop, just use an embed HTML renderer. It is not the > same as XUL but it is getting close and you can also provide native > experience without fiddling to much with any framework. > > Personally, this is the route I have chosen for myself.
I'm working on an Eclipse project that leverages xulrunner as an embedded browser. The idea was to provide an app with a common, cross-platform UI using HTML5... but AFAIK, xulrunner for SWT is stuck at v10 due to xpcom. Using shims for html5 & es5 helps a bit, but not nearly as much as say SWT being able to use xulrunner 13. ;-) As it stands, I'm currently trying to get SWT to let me run the mozrepl extension; Firebug-lite just doesn't want to behave for me. Cheers, -- Scott Elcomb @psema4 on Twitter / Identi.ca / Github & more Atomic OS: Self Contained Microsystems http://code.google.com/p/atomos/ Member of the Pirate Party of Canada http://www.pirateparty.ca/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
