[OPEN-ILS-DEV] ***SPAM*** Re: ***SPAM*** Building/installing Everygreen (Open ILS) staff client under CentOS 5

[Joe Atzberger]

You can already use firefox (at least version 4) instead of xulrunner with
the -app command-line option.

--Joe

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Rick Mason <rick at libology.com> wrote:

>  Hi Jason,
>
> I am not sure when apples vs. oranges might apply to this analogy, but
> Firefox has been building
> up their support for apps.  Would it be easier all the way around for you
> to build an extension/app
> that would be installed within Firefox and then run as an application.  I
> am thinking along
> the lines of Prism (formerly WebRunner), which is being integrated to some
> extent into Firefox 4.
>
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism
>
> Benefits, assuming I understand it correctly, would be the ability to
> maintain one client that would
> work across different operating systems, as well as the capability to run
> offline.  I am thinking about
> offline circ or even data collection (i.e. inventory scanning).  If this
> would apply, it would save the
> developers and users a great deal of time and effort:  if you can install
> and run Firefox,
> you can install and run the client as well.
>
> I don't know much about the limits of Prism/Firefox, nor about the
> limits/requirements of
> Evergreen, so this is just tossed in as an idea.
>
> Rick Mason
> http://www.libology.com/blog/
>
> Jason Etheridge wrote:
>
> ... We can easily build Firefox extensions and generic XPI files....
>
>
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