There have been a pile of posts about the TraceMonkey code that just landed in mozilla-central. mozilla-central is the source code repository we’re using in the lead up to Firefox 3.1. Here are some posts if you want to read about it:
Brendan Eich: TraceMonkey: JavaScript Lightspeed
John Resig: TraceMonkey
Mike Schroepfer: What can you do [...]
It’s been a while since my last post on the embedding API so I thought I might post an update on what’s been going on.
First, Pelle Johnsen has been doing a lot of the work and is maintaining a set of pages on the new embedding API. Included there are build instructions for the [...]
Pretty neat to see someone ported over flashblock to run on MicroB on the N810. I haven’t looked at the code to see how they do it, but I’ll bet it was a rough ride since that’s written in C and C++, not in XUL. (I also assume that Antonio did this work?)
As [...]
Someone took Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey JS engine, hooked it up to OpenGL ES and shows it off a processing demo on the iPhone. No browser required.
Neat stuff! Thanks for the link, John!
Over the last few months some of our contributors have been hacking away on trying to get Mozilla running on directfb systems on top of gtk. You can see Niranjan’s latest post on the topic here as well as the DirectFB Porting Page in our wiki. Sounds like they have things mostly up [...]
I made a note about this in my previous post but I thought it would be worth it to make a separate post about this.
We’ll be having another embedding meetup in Mountain View on May 8th and 9th (next Thursday and Friday.) Our goal will be to start pitching and scoping a new Embedding [...]
Notes from the whiteboard.
Two Fridays ago, right in the middle of a brutal two weeks of travel, I stopped by in San Francisco and participated in a brainstorming session around embedding Mozilla into other applications. The raw notes are available in the image above, and are a bit blurry. I will try and [...]
At Mozilla we’ve been doing a lot of work on mobile and one aspect of that work is to make it easier to embed Mozilla into other applications. We’ve been pretty focused on end user features, product and platform in a way that gets our browser into people’s hands in a very direct manner. [...]