On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 8:19 AM, Asa Dotzler <a...@mozilla.com> wrote: > You seem to have missed the part where I pointed out Benjamen's call for > those interested in helping make a simple multi-process embedding story > happen. > > Then again, those who will do nothing more to make it happen than "hope for > it" are probably wise to look to other solutions.
I didn't miss it. But I imagine that most people who would "hope" for this are in a similar situation to me. I can invest a small amount of time, but not enough to get over the initial barrier needed to get started. It starts with the fact that the documentation appears to be ancient. What documentation there is is a bit off-putting - do I really need all of that stuff if my use-case is just to render some HTML+CSS to an off-screen buffer? The other avenues for getting involved in Mozilla offer baby-steps to getting involved. You can learn a lot of the front-end, for example, but starting out writing a plug-in. As near as I can tell, there are no baby steps to getting involved in Gecko embedding. Since I don't have the time to invest several months wading through the source code and trying to figure out which documentation still applies, I don't see any realistic way to contribute. I am willing to give a couple of hundred Euros to Mozilla to contribute towards a summer student, working with the support and mentorship of some Mozilla people, to improve the documentation. I bet others would too if you set up a donations page. Cheers, Ami. _______________________________________________ dev-embedding mailing list dev-embedding@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-embedding
