| attah | flypig: I feel so stupid for not realizing the video was missing - any chance you can swing a summary? | 16:03 |
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| flypig | Ah yes, of course! Which part did you miss. | 16:04 |
| attah | Not sure why i didn't question it being text-only, but alas | 16:04 |
| attah | The entire answer to my question (and most of the rest probably) | 16:04 |
| flypig | It's frustrating that the video doesn't appear automatically. | 16:04 |
| flypig | Let me see. He was explaining how it *is* possible to embed gecko, but it's not easy. He talked about some examples, notably Wine, which apparently embeds gecko. | 16:06 |
| flypig | He was interested in Sailfish OS and what SF is doing with gecko. He asked some questions, which you'll have seen me answer in the text. | 16:06 |
| flypig | He also explained a number of other areas that were priority over embedding support. | 16:07 |
| flypig | It's hard for me to remember the detail beyond that I'm afraid. I hope that sort of answers your question attah! | 16:08 |
| attah | Yes, thanks! | 16:09 |
| flypig | attah, thanks for asking your question in the first place. A really nice thing to ask :) | 16:09 |
| attah | Someone has got to do it (: | 16:09 |
| flypig | :D | 16:09 |
| attah | And i'd think the values align enough for it to be relevant | 16:10 |
| flypig | Yes, for sure, it's a really relevant question. Obviously it's a shame the embedding hooks aren't a more of a priority for Mozilla. | 16:11 |
| attah | Indeed, and i would have though that with a reasonable abstraction the Android embedding bindings would be open to other languages than Java (horror of horrors) | 16:12 |
| flypig | During the talk he mentioned there are different layers: gecko + privileged JS + UI. The UI part is Java for Android. Some of the privileged JS is shared between Android and desktop. | 16:14 |
| flypig | The difficulty is that on Android the boundary between JS and Java changes. We can't use any of the Java on SF. | 16:15 |
| attah | Ugh, that sounds iffy | 16:17 |
| flypig | It's okay, it just means there's work to be done for each release. | 16:18 |
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