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Native Aqua interface for Mozilla Gecko

updated 03:41 pm EST, Tue January 23, 2001


Adam Schuster has begun an effort to bring a native interface to the Mozilla Gecko engine for Mac OS X, in his project called Q.BATi: "Currently in the planing stages (we are trying to design an intuitve, native, interface for an OS X browser, preferably shirking common "standard" browser ideas) Q.BATi could use any help we can get porting Mozilla to a MachO (rather than the current Fizzilla push towards a Carbon port)."


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    Correction

    "Q.BATi could use any help we can get porting Mozilla to a MachO (rather than the current Fizzilla push towards a Carbon port)."

    The above statement is misleading. A Carbon application can be CFM/PEF based or dyld/MachO based. All Carbon applications written by Apple for example, care MachO based. (The Finder is MachO based).

    Some people think that somehow Carbon applications are not native for MacOS X. That couldn't be further from the truth.

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    clearification

    The Fizzilla port (FizzillaCFM) being focused on now, is a Carbon "port" in that they are using the standard Mac build environment (CodeWarrior 5 with the Carbon "exrtras" of 6) to pull code and build Fizzilla using Carbon ported traditional Mac Mozilla networking bits etc.

    The FizzillaMachO project is to build Fizzilla using the standard Unix Mozilla networking bits etc.

    The point being, yes Carbon programs are native, but "tweaking" traditional Mac code for Mozilla networking, etc for Carbon, results in a product somewhat slower/less efficient (according to the Apple developers who helped start the Fizzilla ports) than using the Unix bits.

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