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Comment Re:decouple and load dynamically with minimal impa (Score 1) 132

In this case, the browser already had all the parts and pieces. Because of remote debugging API, the developer tools and so on. So an editor was just a small step.

Judging by the article summary. They wanted to offer something which was easily discoverable.

That is all there is too it. Nothing more, nothing less.

Comment Re:But is it false? (Score 1) 268

If you think where it is hosted makes any difference, then you would be wrong.

The person that starts the lawsuit can basically pick any country he likes out of at least these jurisdictions and more:
- where it is hosted
- where the domainname was registered
- where the domainname is hosted
- the country of the country top level domain: .to anyone ?
- the country of the person or company being sued
- the country of the person or company that is suing
- whatever ever else you can think off.

These can all be different countries.

And a judge makes a the decision if he will or will not take the case.

Comment Re:decouple and load dynamically with minimal impa (Score 1) 132

Well, Firebug is an addon which is also written in HTML/JS/CSS.

This has always been mostly true in Firefox, Firefox is built in XUL which is an XML variant and Javascript.

An addon just has different privileges than a normal webpage.

It is just a zip-file with a different extension. Office documents like ODT and DOCX these days are also just zip-files with a different extension.

Just have a look at the code:
https://github.com/firebug/fir...

When I was browsing through the files, just to make sure, I noticed Firebug also used the same codemirror editor:
https://github.com/firebug/fir...

Comment Re:RIP firefox, lean and fast (Score 1) 132

This does not make Firefox slower or load slower.

The only thing this does is make the download slightly larger.

These are in seperate files which don't get loaded on startup.

They first all added their own remote debug protocol:
http://remotedebug.org/specifi...

And now people want to have a unified protocol:

http://remotedebug.org/

In the mean time, browser vendors like Mozilla and Chrome add the last missing piece an editor.

Nothing fancy, just something basic.

It's a natural progression.

Comment Re:Code (Score 1) 80

My guess would be this is for I/O.

These customers have lots of I/O that, if you can do high performance optimized operations on a general CPU how useful would that be ?

Think of something like liberouter or NetFFPGA embedded on the CPU die.

Or maybe the FPGA is used to implement calculations like crypto and hashes like CRC32C. Instead of building them into the silicon, why not make it possible to do research by loading new versions of it.

Maybe you just need to look around on the Internet what other companies are doing with these, it might also give you hints:
http://www.embedded.com/electr...

Comment Re:Your wish is available now (Score 1) 82

1. Technically they didn't implement closed DRM, they let others build a closed part and allow it to be run from Firefox

2. You mean Android ? the Google services are getting more closed by the day and the open source components are lagging. Samsung is creating their own replacements. This seems like a good idea to you ?

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