Comments on: mozilla embedding overview & meetup notes

By: Between the Lines mobile edition

Between the Lines mobile edition — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:53:46 +0000

[...] Chris Blizzard outlined some of the key facets of Mozilla’s embedding effort in April. He noted how it was imperative that Mozilla had a consistent story and approach for developers that wanted to embed its applications elsewhere. [...]

By: blizzard

blizzard — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:37:49 +0000

Martin –

Did you want to post that to the .embedding newsgroup?

By: Martin Lütken

Martin Lütken — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:39:45 +0000

I have tried incapsulating some of the core DOM interfaces into STL/stdc++ like ones. It seems to work pretty well. I have iterates for collections, lists and everywhere I use std::string. Also I have tried to mimic the javascript naming and interface as much as possible. So I return values instead of just the error result and so on.

It is notcomplete but it is good enough for my purpose but perhaps the ideas could be used in this context. I also have had some wild toughts about whether itwould be possible to extens the XPIDL “compiler” to also generate those STL like interfaces automatically .

By: Will’s Miro dev blog » Blog Archive » June 3rd chat — follow-up and some more answers

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:23:45 +0000

[...] really like to help Mozilla on their embedding efforts. I’d also really like to get more involved in gstreamer, Python 3000 and a bunch of other [...]

By: Will’s Miro dev blog » Blog Archive » Miro hackfest in Boston

Will’s Miro dev blog » Blog Archive » Miro hackfest in Boston — Thu, 22 May 2008 16:21:35 +0000

[...] out the fledgling Mozilla embedded API with the gtkx11 [...]

By: jmdesp

jmdesp — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:32:43 +0000

C vs. C++: You’re talking about embedding here, so in some case that might mean going backwards in terms of compilers/tools wrt the standard today. Also when you need to integrate from a completely different language, binding problems can be huge. So it would be good if those who for some reason really need it could avoid using c++, like having a c interface for platform code and c++ for embedding.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:38:27 +0000

In the light of extending the JS context. You might also want to add having the ability to add new XML languages (like XFORMS). In other words adding XTF support to the Embedding API. Right now you’ll have to use the XPCOM Component Manager for that.

By: Stephen Smoogen

Stephen Smoogen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:23:31 +0000

Oh if you go for the network stack and such… make sure you have an intelligent agent to keep track of each of the sub-agents. In some ways you end up with a miniature OS to make sure that your various ’stacks’ are operating correctly etc.

By: Stephen Smoogen

Stephen Smoogen — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:23:58 +0000

Wow… that was like reading the design notes from Spyglass in 1996 or so.. They had gone through the wringer with Microsoft and Mozilla and were trying to figure out where to go. It was pretty much the same ‘layout’ and such but a lot of the items were way ahead of the hardware/infrastructure at that time (having to craft their own widgets etc and build a TCP/IP stack because well the gasoline pump wouldn’t have it.)