Re: Browser Architecture Newsletter #7 (S02E02)

2018-09-20 Thread Brian Grinstead
> On Sep 20, 2018, at 9:10 AM, Kris Maglione wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 09:02:09AM -0700, Nicholas Alexander wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 7:25 AM smaug wrote: >>> > I'm reminded of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618912 but >>> > IIRC there were similar experiments ba

Re: Browser Architecture Newsletter #7 (S02E02)

2018-09-20 Thread Kris Maglione
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 09:02:09AM -0700, Nicholas Alexander wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 7:25 AM smaug wrote: > I'm reminded of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618912 but > IIRC there were similar experiments back then on desktop, and basic html > chrome was significantly faster

Re: Browser Architecture Newsletter #7 (S02E02)

2018-09-20 Thread Nicholas Alexander
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 7:25 AM smaug wrote: > On 09/20/2018 04:21 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:18:49PM +0300, smaug wrote: > >> On 09/19/2018 08:34 PM, Nicholas Alexander wrote: > >>> 2. > >>> > >>> Making the main browser window be an HTML document with (mostly)

Re: Browser Architecture Newsletter #7 (S02E02)

2018-09-20 Thread smaug
On 09/20/2018 04:21 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:18:49PM +0300, smaug wrote: On 09/19/2018 08:34 PM, Nicholas Alexander wrote: 2. Making the main browser window be an HTML document with (mostly) HTML DOM elements instead of a XUL document with (mostly) XUL DOM

Re: Browser Architecture Newsletter #7 (S02E02)

2018-09-20 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 12:18:49PM +0300, smaug wrote: > On 09/19/2018 08:34 PM, Nicholas Alexander wrote: > >2. > > > >Making the main browser window be an HTML document with (mostly) HTML > >DOM elements instead of a XUL document with (mostly) XUL DOM elements. > > It is still myste

Re: Browser Architecture Newsletter #7 (S02E02)

2018-09-20 Thread smaug
On 09/19/2018 08:34 PM, Nicholas Alexander wrote: 2. Making the main browser window be an HTML document with (mostly) HTML DOM elements instead of a XUL document with (mostly) XUL DOM elements. It is still mystery to me how the performance can be anywhere close to XUL when starting br

Browser Architecture Newsletter #7 (S02E02)

2018-09-19 Thread Nicholas Alexander
Browser Architecture Newsletter #7 (S02E02) It’s been a long six months since the last Browser Architecture newsletter <https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2018-March/006272.html>. Short and sweet and no theme for this newsletter. XUL/XBL Replacement The XUL/XBL replacement p