Our 10-year-old #gecko was shedding this afternoon and it's the first time I actually got to witness it!
Usually I only see her before turning a cloudy white, or afterwards when there are some shreds on her tail or she still has her gloves on. But I got to see her bite at the loose skin and peel it all down like a stretchy papery onesie. Over an hour or so.
#SailfishOS#Gecko dev diary Day 235. Wrapping things up before I take a pause until 18th May while I attend the HPC Days conference. Thanks to tortoisedoc for the helpful suggestions and to everyone who's read, boosted and favourited my posts over the last 235 days! I'll be back with more gecko development real soon!
#SailfishOS#Gecko dev diary Day 228. Searching for the equivalent of clearWindowSurface(), but for the WebView rather than the browser. I think I found it though! 🔎
Friendly reminder that XULRunner, the standalone Gecko runtime that once powered web-based applications like Songbird and that was abandoned by Mozilla Corporation has been revived and now builds atop Goanna. Learn more at the Pale Moon forums announcement: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=30913
#SailfishOS#Gecko dev diary Day 160. Disentangling the Web Render Layer Manager from the Client Layer Manager. It turns out trying to do this while travelling by train isn't the best approach 🚂 💻 📱
#SailfishOS#Gecko dev diary, day 150! After a two week break for #FOSDEM I'm back to daily-blogging about gecko again. Today, a bit more progress with the sessionHistory.
Also at #FOSDEM catch me in the FOSS on Mobile Devices Devroom talking about upgrading #Gecko for #SailfishOS, my experiences daily blogging about it and the great support I've received from the amazing #Sailfish#Community.
This is huge! This could allow other Web browser engines like #Firefox's #Gecko to run on iOS, and expand the possibilities with #WebAssembly on iOS, by allowing engines like #wasmtime to run in Apple phones 🥳
(o/c terms and conditions apply, and the costs might be prohibitive)