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

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:34:16 -0400 Evergreen Development Discussion List 	<open-ils-dev at list.georgialibraries.org> wrote:

> 
> 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).

CentOS 5.5 presently has Firefox 3.6.7, so this would certainly be an
option... 

> 
> 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....
> >>
> >>
> >
> 
> 
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