[Conkeror] xulrunner

[John J Foerch]

Greg Minshall <minshall at acm.org> writes:
> by the way, i've gotten distracted with xulrunner problems on FreeBSD (which i 
> run).
>
> i've looked at the xulrunner e-mail list.  it seems to have very little 
> traffic.
>
> is there a possibility that tying to xulrunner is a mistake?  that 
> development/enhancement of that platform is winding down, rather than up?

I expect that xulrunner will continue to be actively developed because
there are so many programs for it.  Firefox will be a xulrunner
application eventually, I believe, though that may have been
postponed.

More and more, especially with jbms's recent improvements
(experimental-buffers branch) conkeror is more of a Component, and
less of a Gui-oriented application.  It is conceivable that conkeror
could be both an independent application and an extension for any
mozilla-based program.  The front end could even be completely
modular, so that conkeror's functionality could be added to
practically any XUL document with the right glue code--not just
`conkeror.xul' as now.

That said, I don't see it happening with any great haste unless the
project gets another developer who wants to work on that.

--John