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provide native mozilla/gecko support? #9

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I spotted this today...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Storage

I wonder if its possible to implement the GWT API on top of this for use in 
Firefox/Mozilla?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by james.st...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2009 at 10:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Well, according to the page you refer to, it is not available to regular HTML 
pages:

"...It is available to trusted callers, meaning extensions and Firefox 
components only."

:-(

Original comment by bguijt on 1 Dec 2009 at 11:00

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Damn! :(

Sorry I should have read more carefully - shame! Guess we'll just have to wait 
for
HTML5 support in Firefox one day...

Original comment by james.st...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2009 at 11:03

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
True. Until then we have to make do with Gears (or Firefox' key/value store) I 
guess.

Hmm, still wanting to build a client-side database from an existing opensource 
database in GWT!

Original comment by bguijt on 1 Dec 2009 at 11:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Replicating SQL, queries and indices is gonna be hard on the key/value store :).
Might be worth just waiting for Firefox to catch up.

I guess Gears days may be numbered...
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_dumps_gears_for_html5.php

once Chrome has HTML5 local database support.

Though Gears still provides a good solution for Firefox support - though its a 
shame
its a separate install (when it looks like firefox comes with internal sqlite 
for
components to use)

Original comment by james.st...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2009 at 11:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Iknow that's hard, hence the idea to start with a simple, existing (Java) 
database. Would be an interesting 
experiment at the least :-)

Google dumps gears? That's new to me!

I know Opera Mobile (heavily) relies on gears for the Geolocation and Database 
features. I guess they, too, 
need to implement them themselves now.

I could not find any word from Mozilla about a commitment to implement the Web 
Database API.. :-(

Original comment by bguijt on 1 Dec 2009 at 1:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
"dumps" is maybe a bit harsh :) I think its more that Chrome is committed to 
going
the HTML5 specification route I guess.

It'd be nice if Gears just exposed a HTML5 API, then its win-win :)

Original comment by james.st...@gmail.com on 1 Dec 2009 at 1:40