Re: [Syllable-developer] Porting Firefox

[Matt E. <me...@in...>]

It's not that easy, unfortunately. Firefox on BeOS is pretty bleeding edge
still.  Whilst the BeAPI is similar to Syllables, I suspect there will be
big problems. Just looking at the Cosmoe progress reports backs up this
idea. If it was a simple task, someone would have ported ABrowse to BeOS by
now, as at the time ABrowse arrived on the scene, BeOS was lacking a descent
browser.

Matt


> FYI, I downloaded the Firefox source awhile back, and looked through it.
> There is a BeOS port of Firefox.  Theoretically, someone could make a copy
> of that, and change any BeOS widget references to Syllable widget
> references.  That would resolve a _lot_ of the work needed to create a
> Syllable port.