RE: Re: Meta-level questions GUI. Gecko?

Mukhsein Johari wrote:

> I was wondering...what about using mozilla gecko? The
> mozilla firefox download is relatively small (<5MB on
> win32 and 8MB on linux) and they are working on a GRE
> or XRE, a small runtime that all mozilla-based apps
> can use (firefox, thunderbird, sunbird, nvue). You
> could maybe use XPCOM to gain access to the gecko
> objects. Using gecko would give you:
>=20
> - Easy GUI programming (with XUL)
> - internet / web libraries (xml, html, svg, css)
> - cross-platform use
>=20
> There are also some interesting points:
>=20
> - mozilla low level is in C/C++(?) but higher
> application level logic is in javascript
> - javascript is prototype-based so the object wrappers
> are already designed for prototype-based language
> - possibility to use prothon in web-pages (client-side
> scripting) which could quickly increase user-base
> - prothon is far more full-featured compared to
> javascript and imho, many would find it attractive
>=20
> Since you're looking at various alternatives, you
> might want to look at this as well. Consider also that
> the mozilla guys *are* addressing the .net issue - not=20
> necessarily embracing it, though.

That sounds like a step up from the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) that
Prothon is already using.

I doubt it has a decent set of general-purpose libraries though like =
Python,
Java, or .Net has.

It is definitely an interesting concept.  I especially like the fact =
that it
is a niche market for Prothon. I'll study up on Gecko a bit more.