Hi Richard, I would love to get more support for xulrunner given that I have already spent 3 year on xulrunner-based application but I am getting none. My advice is to stay away from it. It is clear that Mozilla is not taking this product anywhere. If you like to do stuff in Markup and Javascript than stick to HTML and create your own wrapper with Webkit because Gecko is really hard to use. Do the native stuff natively and the main interface in HTML, JavaScript and CSS. It works. Moreover, fiddling with XPCOM is not worth the effort - I am talking from personal experience. You may as well implement stuff natively instead of spending countless of hours tracing weird bugs.
On Tuesday, November 6, 2012 9:58:39 PM UTC, richardso...@gmail.com wrote: > At first I tried for a couple of days to try to get xulrunner 16.0.2 to work > on my OSX 10.6, until I understoo it wasn't working at all running the > 'xulrunner -v' will return an 'error' string where the version should come > out. > > > > Looking in forums such as this I found out it is a well known error, that > there is actually a bug reported from last year about it, which does not have > anybody working on it. > > > > So I changed my focus to 'Macports' they have two packages available where > only 'xulrunner-devel' which is at version 2.0, actually worked. I got in > contact with the previous maintainer and he dropped the support for the > package 9 months ago because it was taking too much of his time to maintain > the package, he said that he kept battling with the code making bug reports > to get each version to work on OS X. Well enough, I got to an understanding > that the platform is supported primarly to have FF or TB be able to work on > OSX, were this project have their own maintainers, for what I'm seeing it is > my deduction that the mac compilation is being done automatically and nobody > is actually taking the time to try it out on OS X platform. > > > > By making post I would like to raise concern about this, probably the use of > xulrunner on OS X is not very popular I would say that nobody has asked for > this before. I could surely go about and start taking care of this myself, > although I would like to get more acquainted with the platform to understand > more the parts of it. Currently I've developed an extension and now I'm going > to start my first application which I'm kind of stuck using version 2.0 of > the platform. > > > > I'm not sure if I'm really the only one with this issue, but surely I would > like to hear from anyone else if they themselves would like to see xulrunner > be more compatible with OS X, and if can't be more compatible why is that to > see if any of us can help. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
