Re: Programmer Challenge: Worlds Smallest Gecko Browser DLL for C++ programmers to use in their apps? (programmatically controlled, ultra minimalistic-->ultra fast)

On 8/8/10 1:48 PM, Jani Mäkinen wrote:

> I'm curious, what is the smallest size you guys have gotten the gecko
> browser fitted into?

Why does this matter to you?

> I'm working on a project right now where I need(and I believe many
> others will need aswell) a programmatically controlled browser DLL for
> my windows software and I'm going to create a very very small Gecko
> browser without using activex's or external executables if I possibly
> can, and I'd like to challenge you guys also to this, so that we as C+
> + programmers can support Mozilla&  FireFox to get a nice smart fast
> browser to our use when we function in environments where do not have
> either the resources or the full capabilities to launch the real
> Mozilla Firefox or the users default browser.

The standard recommendation for this is to use a XULRunner build, which 
already has things like XRE_InitEmbedding which you can use to hook up 
browsing within an application.

I think this problem has already been mostly solved. See the winEmbed 
example in the tree.

Also, to address your first question, please see 
http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2005-07-29/the-testing-matrix/ for why we 
strongly discourage people from trying to make the "smallest possible" 
version of Mozilla, rather than using the standard tested version.

--BDS