Comments on: Offline Cache Support Added to the Firefox Code http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2007/03/offline-cache-support-added-to-the-firefox-code/ Just an average guy trying to drink above average beer. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer » Games Driving "WPF/E" Adoption and Great Stuff about Apollo’s "Competition" http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2007/03/offline-cache-support-added-to-the-firefox-code/comment-page-1/#comment-2073 Ryan Stewart - Rich Internet Application Mountaineer » Games Driving "WPF/E" Adoption and Great Stuff about Apollo’s "Competition" Mon, 26 Mar 2007 03:51:57 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=714#comment-2073 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> By: leslie http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2007/03/offline-cache-support-added-to-the-firefox-code/comment-page-1/#comment-2072 leslie Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:57:28 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=714#comment-2072 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 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

]]> By: Tourist http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/2007/03/offline-cache-support-added-to-the-firefox-code/comment-page-1/#comment-2071 Tourist Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:07:27 +0000 http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com/?p=714#comment-2071 And I enjoy Mozilla. The development and support is amazing And I enjoy Mozilla. The development and support is amazing

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