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

[Thomas Berezansky]

Firefox 3 has that support too, and (at least in trunk) there is an  
extension target for building the staff client that works in Firefox  
3.5 and 3.6 (currently).

Thomas Berezansky
Merrimack Valley Library Consortium


Quoting Joe Atzberger <jatzberger at esilibrary.com>:

> 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....
>>
>>
>