[Conkeror] conkeror roadmap

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 01:09:12PM -0400, John J Foerch wrote:
> You may know about the `conkeror-xr' branch of the CVS repository. It
> contains a version of conkeror that runs on the XULRunner platform
> instead of as a firefox extension. As of yesterday (oct 16, 2007),
> this is now the official development version, and it is in CVS
> trunk. Development of conkeror as a firefox extension is abandoned,
> but the code is still available in the CVS branch, `conkeror-ext'.

Cool, that makes it easier to package (and especially easier to call
independently from firefox) for distributions and therefore makes me
working again on a conkeror package for Debian:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=394566

I mainly have suspended my work since I was not able to make conkeror
load a website on the command line. (At least IIRC, it was nearly one
year ago...)

> Conkeror has always been essentially a `chrome application'. By that
> term, I mean that all of the functionality of the program exists and
> runs within the scope of the browser-frame's chrome. Each frame
> (`window' in window-manager terminology) essentially has a separate
> instance of conkeror running, with state completely independent of any
> other frame. This design has several disadvantages.

Full Ack.

> Any program that sets emacs as its role model has big shoes to
> fill.

Hehe.

>     * special buffers
> 
> We want to have special buffers in conkeror for things like a download
> manager, web history, messages, buffer list, and so on. There will be
> an organized strategy for working with special buffers so they are
> logically distinct from browser buffers.

Cool idea!

Thanks!

		Regards, Axel
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