On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Martin Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alas. :) I'm curious about what bits of Gears on Linux are currently > unimplemented with NPAPI. Obviously it would be useful for some > of the WebKit browsers which run on Linux (like Midori, etc). Would > getting an incomplete NPAPI version of Gears/Linux compiling be > the first step toward this?
That would be a good first step. You could get things like the Gears database API working. That said, there is no single NPAPI "version" of Gears. It's used partially by Chrome, Safari, and Android. The pieces which are unimplemented are things that are done natively for that browser, because of various limitations in NPAPI: things like network interception, for instance. If you're interested in getting it working for a WebKit browser, you might take a look at the Safari port. (Chrome also uses WebKit, but is architecturally different enough that the Chrome-specific bits won't be useful.)
