Re:Revisiting how we build Firefox
by fabrice_d on Monday July 06, 2015 @03:56PM
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A few things:
- currently browser.html runs on top of a gecko runtime (called graphene) which is based on the one we use for FirefoxOS.
- getting gecko to work on gonk is not different from adding support for other platforms like linux/mac/windows/android. Basically you need to provide implementation for low level windowing and input events. On non-posix systems there's a bit more to do in the nspr library, but that's not the case for gonk.
- we already have a port of servo that runs on gonk.
FirefoxOS has been using a 100% html UI since about 4 years, so it has been leading the way here.
- currently browser.html runs on top of a gecko runtime (called graphene) which is based on the one we use for FirefoxOS.
- getting gecko to work on gonk is not different from adding support for other platforms like linux/mac/windows/android. Basically you need to provide implementation for low level windowing and input events. On non-posix systems there's a bit more to do in the nspr library, but that's not the case for gonk.
- we already have a port of servo that runs on gonk.
FirefoxOS has been using a 100% html UI since about 4 years, so it has been leading the way here.