Meeting Michal Ceresna about MozSwing

Attendees:

• Peter Zavadsky
• Sandip Chitale
• Joelle Lam
• Michal Ceresna

Agenda

• Introductions
• Status and Direction of MozSwing
• What Sun is trying to do with Embedded Browser
• Issues with MozSwing
• Requirements for us to use MozSwing
• XulRunner Branched
• Contracting

Issues with MozSwing -

• Inside an Applet, window freezes
• Linux Stability - Event loop issues
• The current implementation was the fastest to implement but the least stable.
• There are other implementations that would take longer to implement but will be more stable.

Requirements for us to use MozSwing

1. We need to be able to build this on Solaris.
   • Mozilla using xlib has not been tried yet, because in Michal's experience using not standard Mozilla builds are not stable because they have not been tested.
   • Sandip expressed concerns that XLIB and GTK may not work well together.
   • This is something Sandip and Joelle need to look into further.
2. Resources for Bug Fix.
   • When we have a bug fix, there may be some delay since Michal is contracting.
3. Commit Access

XulRunner Branched

• Why don't you use xulrunner binaries?
  • Michal has found it difficult to get patches committed since JavaXPCOM is a small division of Mozilla and not high priority.
  • Allows for quick patches and modifications as necessary.
  • Having a binary would be ideal, but more difficult to make changes.
  • For now the patches are in sourceforge.

GFX ( to have a true Swing implementation )

• Michal does not think this will be easy since it is going to require it's own rendering.
• The output may look different than the browser rendering.
• He has done a little bit of work with GFX.
• Sandip will send an email with further details.

Commit Access

• It is possible to get commit access as we become more involved.