This past week I’ve written a couple of patches to make embedding Mozilla easier\/better:<\/p>\n
This second patch caused some concern: I made gtkmozembed use the new toolkit profile-management APIs (gtkmozembed will no longer build with seamonkey). This is not a problem of itself, since Mozilla has already made a commitment that libxul will be the ongoing embedding framework.<\/p>\n
The more difficult problem is that the toolkit (xulrunner) currently doesn’t support a lot of the “small-device” build options such as --disable-xul<\/tt>. We definitely want to continue to support small device embedding situations, while avoiding the costs of supporting an exponential combination of little build options that may have complex interactions<\/a>. This provoked a spirited discussion among drivers@mozilla.org about what options are valuable to support and who should bear the support burden of these options. The provisional outcome of this discussion is as follows: Mozilla is interested in maintaining a couple of “small device profiles”, in cooperation with small-device embedders (cell phone manufacturers and others). I have written up a wiki document<\/a> with a preliminary proposal describing three profiles. I would like to get input from small-device embedders about what features they actually need, and to what extent they are able to help in the maintenance and documentation of these small-device profiles.<\/p>\n This proposal results in a slightly illogical situation of a small-device “XULRunner” build that doesn’t actually support XUL (it would be an embedding solution). In this sense what you are building is really more “GeckoRunner”; but there’s no need to get caught up in naming…<\/p>\n I’d also like to reiterate that this support is explicitly for small devices that can’t handle the full XULRunner footprint. It doesn’t make sense to have a small-device profile of XULRunner installed on a PC; it is important to support a full-featured web if there are sufficient system resources available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This past week I’ve written a couple of patches to make embedding Mozilla easier\/better: Bug 321359 – Give embedders the ability to lock and select profiles Bug 299988 – Integrate gtkmozembed with libxul This second patch caused some concern: I made gtkmozembed use the new toolkit profile-management APIs (gtkmozembed will no longer build with seamonkey). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","tag-xulrunner"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}