On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:19 AM, William Immendorf <[email protected]> wrote: > The news says: > > "SeaMonkey uses the same internal platform as Firefox 3.5.4 now. Due > to this change SeaMonkey is now much closer to Firefox as far as user > profiles, add-ons and functionality of user interface elements are > concerned." > > and this means that Seamonkey uses the same engine as Firefox 3.5.4, > so it uses XULRunner. > > This means that XULRunner should be added as a recommended dep for this > reason.
Additionaly: "Gecko, the rendering engine used in SeaMonkey, has seen many improvements since the version used in the last stable release. Changes range from a better graphics backend (Cairo/Thebes) to improved support for fonts, CSS, DOM and JavaScript. SeaMonkey 2.0 passes the Acid2 test and most of Acid3 and includes all the HTML5 and other new web-facing features also included in Firefox 3.5, such as audio/video elements, downloadable fonts and JIT-compiled JavaScript." Both quotes are from http://www.seamonkey-project.org/releases/seamonkey2.0. What it does to use is that it reduces the build time by a ton, and also has a similar reason to Firefox: XULRunner gives us the pkgconfig files for libxul and other stuff. -- William Immendorf The ultimate in free computing. -------------- "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
