[Discuss] WebRunner on Ubuntu

[Lloyd Budd]

On 10/3/07, Ronald Schouten <ron at atomeo.com> wrote:
> I think you are talking about XULRunner. And yes, many people are
> disappointed that Mozilla is not pushing this to be a common runtime
> for XUL based applications. I would agree with the Mozilla perspective
> that creating a common runtime is not a trivial task and would divert
> resources from a still very competitive browser market. I would also
> agree that the browser is more important than a common runtime as we
> are seeing a significant trend away from desktop applications toward
> web applications.

That is what I was thinking of!


> But this is a bit of a digression. WebRunner is a more than XULRunner
> (although based on it) and aims to provide a browser for web
> applications that don't need all of the UI features that come with a
> full-blown browser. More info here:

I will definitely have to check that out. Hopefully, that we meet many
of the needs and keep people collaborating on a common web stack.

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