Offline Cache Support Added to the Firefox Code
Mark Finkle highlighted the fact that offline cache support was added to the Firefox trunk last night marking a significant milestone in offline web applications. This means all the nightly builds going forward will have support for offline applications. As most people know, I’m not sold on the Firefox model for offline applications, but this was worth mentioning. He also says there are still ongoing discussions about how to give developers access to the offline capability.
I’ve been enjoying Mark’s blog a lot because I’ve been trying to learn more about XUL and how Mozilla plans to support RIAs. If you’re looking for a different take on things, subscribe to his feed.
[tags]Mozilla, Firefox, Mark Finkle[/tags]
Posted in Rich Internet Applications
March 15th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
And I enjoy Mozilla. The development and support is amazing
March 22nd, 2007 at 11:57 am
I’m not sure Mozilla will be a contender in the RIA space any time soon.
I’ve been hacking on (prototyping, really) Mozilla-based RIAs since 0.9.1, and the developer story has not gotten much better (although Mark Finkle might help a little).
More simply, Mozilla is not a webdev coder friendly platform to develop on. You need some serious C++ XPCOM chops to hack or embed Mozilla right now, although the other day I was able to get JRuby to start embedding Mozilla through JavaXPCom.
The way I see it, right now, the main customer of the Mozilla platform is Firefox, not Moz embedders or Moz-specific RIAs.
As for XUL, it hasn’t seemed to get much easier to use in the seven years since I first played with it.
~L
March 25th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
[...] My only quibble with Andrew is that Firefox 3 is vaporware. It’s in the code baby! I also think XULRunner should be talked about as a “competitor” because it may be the closest of all these to Apollo, but he was going off of the TechCrunch list. [...]