Re:Thunderbird’s Future Home
by jabl on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:54AM
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> how is the plan to slowly rewrite it viable?
Last time this topic came up on HN, someone linked to a thread on tb-planning where the post-XUL future was discussed. IIRC the "slow rewrite" was considered unworkable, and the proposed plan was to restart from scratch using "web technologies" while continuing doing basically security updates for the classic XUL TB until the replacement is ready.
As an aside, what "web technologies" exactly meant wasn't discussed. Is it electron? Or something mozilla-based like the servo + browser.html experiment? Or running a separate server process and connect to it using a normal browser (like e.g. mailpile does)?
Re:Thunderbird’s Future Home
by acemarke on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @11:31AM
(#14300851)
I would assume along the lines of using writing the core logic in Javascript, using NPM packages to help implement things, and using UI libraries like React, rather than building everything in C++/XPCOM/XUL.
Last time this topic came up on HN, someone linked to a thread on tb-planning where the post-XUL future was discussed. IIRC the "slow rewrite" was considered unworkable, and the proposed plan was to restart from scratch using "web technologies" while continuing doing basically security updates for the classic XUL TB until the replacement is ready.
As an aside, what "web technologies" exactly meant wasn't discussed. Is it electron? Or something mozilla-based like the servo + browser.html experiment? Or running a separate server process and connect to it using a normal browser (like e.g. mailpile does)?