>
>
> - Brian: Firefox architecture changes may break the Development Mode 
> plugin by the end of the year. (The ContextStack service went away [1] and 
> word is that they will be making more architectural changes [2]. This isn't 
> the end of Development Mode because we still have Chrome, but we should get 
> moving on Super Dev Mode.
>

Would be good to know what "may break" means. How realistic is it? IMHO its 
one of the most important things to figure out asap.

As an example: I am developing on Mac OS. Safari plugin is gone, as you 
stated Firefox is maybe gone by the end of year, Chrome is painfully slow 
compared to Firefox, SuperDevMode is not an option either for most apps out 
there (SDM takes ~40 seconds to recompile our app last time i tried it, and 
its not a really large app). So what should I use then?

Thats not a nice situation to be in if Firefox will really break DevMode in 
the near future. Even today with Firefox the situation isn't great because 
this known memory leak when using FireFox + DevMode regularly drives me 
crazy. 

This all could easily become a real major issue among developers and their 
every days work.

Maybe there are also other things to explore beside SDM. Random thoughts: 
Maybe its possible to provide a special Google Chrome build that is maybe 
not that secure but can execute DevMode freaking fast. What about remote 
connecting to Firefox/Chrome from the IDE? IntelliJ can do this already, 
maybe it can be used with GWT? Something like IntelliJ's LiveEdit but with 
GWT support would be so awesome. Maybe thats possible in combination with 
incremental compilation you mentioned above?


-- J.


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