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Mozilla kills embedding support for Gecko layout engine

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Donald Arseneau

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Apr 1, 2011, 8:08:36 PM4/1/11
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Well, so much for a new and revitalized TkGecko.

Mozilla has officially ended support for embedding the
Gecko layout engine in applications other than Mozilla
core applications.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-kills-embedding-support-for-Gecko-layout-engine-Update-1218990.html

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Wojciech Kocjan

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Apr 2, 2011, 4:57:40 AM4/2/11
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On Apr 1, 8:08 pm, Donald Arseneau <a...@triumf.ca> wrote:
> Mozilla has officially ended support for embedding the
> Gecko layout engine in applications other than Mozilla
> core applications.

Just out of curiosity - how does this relate to Komodo Edit?

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George Petasis

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Apr 2, 2011, 5:47:07 AM4/2/11
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Στις 2/4/2011 03:08, ο/η Donald Arseneau έγραψε:
> Well, so much for a new and revitalized TkGecko.
>
> Mozilla has officially ended support for embedding the
> Gecko layout engine in applications other than Mozilla
> core applications.
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-kills-embedding-support-for-Gecko-layout-engine-Update-1218990.html
>

Well, it seems a reasonable decision. After all, they never got it to
work right, and the API was a moving target.

About TkGecko? I suppose it will keep working for a while, but perhaps
we should move to TkWebKit... :D

George

Jeff Hobbs

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Apr 4, 2011, 12:30:10 PM4/4/11
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Quoting the Komodo Teach Lead:

Komodo Edit and IDE are not affected as XULRunner is not affected. It
hits these particular projects (cleaning up stuff
Mozilla/Firefox doesn't use itself):
gtkmozembed
javaxpcom
the ActiveX control
the NSView embedding widget

Note: The full message from Mozilla (Benjamin Smedberg) is here:
http://mozilla-xp.com/mozilla.dev.embedding/The-future-of-binary-embedding

Georgios Petasis

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Apr 4, 2011, 1:24:46 PM4/4/11
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I am not sure that xulrunner will not be affected, but if it does not,
then TkGecko also uses xulrunner...

George

Georgios Petasis

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Apr 6, 2011, 6:42:40 AM4/6/11
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Στις 2/4/2011 03:08, ο/η Donald Arseneau έγραψε:
> Well, so much for a new and revitalized TkGecko.
>
> Mozilla has officially ended support for embedding the
> Gecko layout engine in applications other than Mozilla
> core applications.
>
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Mozilla-kills-embedding-support-for-Gecko-layout-engine-Update-1218990.html
>

According to a recent post, only the bindings will be removed:

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.embedding/browse_thread/thread/73f34c70ef8df30a/8ab24e346474a00c?show_docid=8ab24e346474a00c&pli=1

The core functions will remain, which means TkGecko will still work (it
is not using any bindings, but uses directly the core API).

George

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