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Mike Beltzner  
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 More options Nov 27 2008, 5:04 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Mike Beltzner <beltz...@mozilla.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:04:38 -0500
Local: Thurs, Nov 27 2008 5:04 pm
Subject: Re: Firefox 3.1: Beta 3 proposal
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On 27-Nov-08, at 4:58 PM, Mook wrote:

> Mike Beltzner wrote:
>> On 26-Nov-08, at 11:27 AM, Robert Kaiser wrote:
>> Without disagreeing that there's a lot to talk about here, in this  
>> case I was speaking more in terms of Firefox-as-platform (for add-
>> on developers) than Gecko-as-platform (which is I think more  
>> relevant to the point you're making.)

> That's the same platform.  XULRunner doesn't get its own...  
> anything, pretty much.  If, hypothetically, worker threads gets  
> dropped in Firefox 3.1, it won't ever show up in XULRunner 1.9.1.  
> Please either stop separating the two in your mind, or actually  
> separate them and have people actually driving XULRunner by itself?

They're not fully separate in my head, no. The point I was making was  
specifically about the add-on community, which is a very different  
subset than the application-built-on-Gecko community.

People are welcome to drive XULRunner by itself. I'm pretty sure some  
people are.

cheers,
mike


 
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