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Re: Mozilla Chromeless 0.2

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Am I the only one who thought this was some attack on Chrome? Whenever I hear talk about browser chrome I always think that Google's name choice was a little confusing. Probably best in the end, though, since it's a catchy name.

Re: Mozilla Chromeless 0.2

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post #3

So is this like PhoneGap for desktops? it was about time

Actually, check out Adobe Air (for ajax developers). Basically it's webkit as a desktop app and pretty mature.

I've used it in the past, but I think Mozilla has a big opportunity here as Adobe has pretty much abandoned the web desktop aspect of AIR to focus on flash/flex for mobile.

Also, Adobe removes some of the best parts of webkit like web workers and I recently found a giant performance bug in their javascript engine that only exists in AIR.

Re: Mozilla Chromeless 0.2

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How is this different from xulrunner? In reading the description it sounds like a way to make a webapp behave like a desktop app but it's a little unclear.

I'm not too familiar with what xulrunner does, but this looks like it is very close to Air. Define a desktop application with html & js, but then have lots of additional hooks to make it a desktop app, playing nice w/ the environment.

Re: Mozilla Chromeless 0.2

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post #4

Am I the only one who thought this was some attack on Chrome? Whenever I hear talk about browser chrome I always think that Google's name choice was a little confusing. Probably best in the end, though, since it's a catchy name.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/chrome

^ I think Mozilla called their thing Chrome for a long while.

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