On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Asa Dotzler <a...@mozilla.com> wrote: > No, that is not the question. There is no question about "caring" here and > it's both rude an insulting to phrase it that way.
I think it's a legitimate question. Maybe the thing is to phrase it differently: "is embedding by third parties considered strategic enough to Mozilla's mission for it to invest its limited resources in it?" I've wanted to use Gecko for embedding various times and ended up having to give up due to my own time constraints. There always ends up being some barrier to making it work that would take more time to solve than whatever project I'm working on will allow. I'd be interested in contributing back in principle, but first I have to become a user, and the barriers to that are currently very high. Especially given the existence of WebKit (which also has its problems, so it's not like there isn't a niche available for a really nice embedding solution). My opinion is that having a richer embedding ecosystem around Gecko would help bring in more contributors long-term and be a real boost to all the projects that rely on Gecko, Firefox included. But that would require more investment by Mozilla in make Gecko an attractive embedding solution to begin with. It's a catch-22 that can only be solved by somebody committing significant resources to the problem. More resources than an individual embedder can afford. I think Mozilla is the only party that can get the ball rolling. Cheers, Ami. _______________________________________________ dev-embedding mailing list dev-embedding@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-embedding
