About Wine/Gecko/MSHTML

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

Hi,

I have no idea to what extent and how Mozilla's Gecko library is being used in Wine (all I know is that it's used in Wine's MSHTML component), but recently a Mozilla developer made a very unsettling announcement: groups dot google dot com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.embedding/c_NMcO-N8wo/discussion

I wonder if this announcement has any adverse effects on Wine's future.

Best wishes,

Artem

[Jacek Caban]

Hi Artem,

On 3/31/11 9:13 PM, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have no idea to what extent and how Mozilla's Gecko library is being used in Wine (all I know is that it's used in Wine's MSHTML component), but recently a Mozilla developer made a very unsettling announcement: groups dot google dot com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.embedding/c_NMcO-N8wo/discussion
>
> I wonder if this announcement has any adverse effects on Wine's future.

We don't use any of mentioned APIs that are about to be removed. We use 
Gecko more internal APIs. They are unfrozen for a while now and it's not 
really a news that Mozilla developers don't care much about embedders 
when making product direction decisions. It's definitely not a good for 
us, but it's nothing new, so I wouldn't worry too much (at lest not yet).

Cheers,
     Jacek