Re: The future of binary embedding
Benjmain Smedberg <[email protected]> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 22:39:50 -0700
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On 4/1/11 1:21 PM, Grant Gayed wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > >> As a project, we aren't going to spend effort trying to solve the problems >> associated with in-process embedding. > Can you clarify what this means? Is it just referring to the dropping of > gtkmozembed/javaxpcom/ActiveX control? Or is it saying that once mozilla > has entered the multi-process world that in-process embedding like can > currently be done via typical XPCOM will no longer be possible? I am not going to peer that far into the future and make grand pronouncements. Today, the decision is very focused on removing these embedding bindings which we don't have the community or capacity to support. We are not removing the core nsIWebBrowser and such, so in-process embedding is still possible. --BDS