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Originally Posted by Morpog View Post
I just sent Romaxa an email. Hopefully he shows up here and shares some news with us.

Hi2all,

Thanks for sending me e-mail, haven't noticed there is some interest about it....

Here is some explanation about what is going on and roadmap...
Originally I was doing embedding API's which would allow to share common functionality between different ports of Native Mobile Firefox (Android, Win8, IOS, Maemo et.c.), also allow to build "quick" browser using these embedding API's and make it works out of the box with IPC or OMTC(multi-thread rendering).

I did both in this patch queue: http://hg.mozilla.org/users/romaxa_g...e/file/default
embedhelper - OMTC
ipcembedding - IPC - patches
also here is test Qt embedding library which allow to embed this new embedding particularly into Qt/Qml scene.
http://hg.mozilla.org/users/romaxa_gmail.com/qtmozembed

Next step is to merge IPC and OMTC API's and make them similar, so qmozemedtest will work in IPC or OMTC mode just by pref change.

Two big tasks TODO:
1) Make this embedding API as part of mozilla native firefox browser (so it will be supported as part of the product)
2) Find and adopt native/QML UI which would work on top of these API's

This would be useful for Nokia N9, Qt environment and probably for future Jolla phone.

I've managed to make default Nokia N9 browser work with these IPC Lite API, and it actually works, but Default browser UI and source code is closed, so I need to find something working in opensource, or write new Qt/QML UI from scratch (too much nitky-pitky work need to be done).

(Now I'm traveling and we'll be back at end of September), sorry for bad response if such.

Br, Oleg
 

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