As one of the lonely few peers for our XBL implementation, I am thrilled that this is finally happening. My deepest gratitude to everyone involved!
bholley On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Dave Townsend <[email protected]> wrote: > Having not heard any show-stopping concerns with the plan we will start to > proceed with it. In Q4 we intend to: > > - Migrate a few bindings and update the plan based on what we learn > - Land XUL support for Custom Elements > - Create tooling to make converting bindings easier > - Begin a bug breakdown for individual bindings > > You can follow this work at the meta bug 1397874. Bgrins has made a > public blog post about our plans[1], please reach out to him if you’re > interested in contributing. > > [1] https://briangrinstead.com/blog/xbl-in-firefox/ > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:47 AM Dave Townsend <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > For some time now we've been talking about moving away from XUL and XBL. > > The browser architecture team has been hard at work figuring out how to > > go about doing that and we're ready to share the first of our proposals > > more widely. We have developed a plan to remove XBL from Firefox. It's > been > > through a successful design review with some of the key engineers and now > > is the time for more comments if you have them. We're planning to start > some > > of the work this quarter with it really ramping up next quarter. > > > > Take a look at the plan > > <https://mozilla.github.io/firefox-browser-architecture/ > text/0007-xbl-design-review-packet.html> > > and let us know what you think. There are a couple of areas where we are > > still investigating concerns: > > > > Performance is of key interest, so we're actively doing experiments to > > validate that Custom Elements can be as performant as XBL > > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1387125>. > > The plan relies on being able to use Custom Elements in XUL, so we're > > working on getting a patch > > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404420>for that landed > > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1404420>. > > We have a list of <tree> elements in the product and we're evaluating > what > > the future is for them. > > > > Are there any other concerns that we're missing? > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
