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> Do you consider at some point supporting a full blown Qt port

Full Qt is just as bad for Mozilla as full native Android UI is. We are
dedicated to the Open Web and using "webby" technology to build our UI
is the anchor point of the success of our Add-ons system. Without it,
that's gone. If it's giving in to a system that was built to make
everything non-Dalvik to suck and recognize that Google has won on
Android or if it's throwing everything away for Qt does not matter. Both
are equally not reflecting what Mozilla stands for - innovation and the
Open Web.

The native Android UI is only done because that system sucks so much for
doing things without a "native" UI that it looks like we can't avoid it
for low-perf devices that have a really big share of the market. I'm
pretty sure we only would think about doing the same with Qt if Qt-based
devices would rule the market equally as Android and iOS do on the
smartphone market right now and at the same time those Qt-based devices
would equally suck on running the "webby" UI that actually reflects what
Mozilla stands for.

Robert Kaiser
...aah, umm, yeah, so why still no Fennec for webOS then? That whole shiznit is built on a "webby" foundation you ID10T.
 

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