It seems to me that the XUL to HTML transition is a big job that needs to be done with care. Would it make sense to try to work toward additions to HTML and/or additions of prefixed attributes and the like to add the needed behaviors to HTML wherever possible before trying to hack out a transition?
It seems to me, anyway, that the ideal solution would be to enhance HTML (ideally in the spec) with the features needed to build a full-fledged desktop UI. That would be fabulous not just for Firefox making the transition to defining its UI in HTML, but could potentially be adopted by other projects and platforms that use JavaScript and HTML to build apps (such as Electron). If we can set a goal of getting a list of the features needed and spec out how we’d revise HTML to support those same functionalities (or at least functionalities that will get the job done), it would be good for everyone. Eric Shepherd Senior Technical Writer Mozilla https://developer.mozilla.org/ <https://developer.mozilla.org/> Blog: http://www.bitstampede.com/ <http://www.bitstampede.com/> Twitter: http://twitter.com/sheppy > On Jan 23, 2017, at 11:12 AM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbar...@mit.edu> wrote: > > On 1/23/17 10:31 AM, David Bolter wrote: >> Should (can) it die in the Quantum development timeframe? > > In my opinion, no. > >> What does that do to shipping risk? > > Makes it super-high. > >> I realize churn creates risk, but I seem to recall XBL >> is getting in the way for Quantum styling? > > Not as much as having to rewrite all our in-tree XBL in not-yet-existing > technologies would get in the way... > > -Boris > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
