Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:44:11 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org To: Jeremy Lea <reg@shale.csir.co.za> Cc: freebsd-mozilla@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current state of the mozilla project on freebsd... (port) Message-ID: <ML-3.3.923600651.4619.patl@asimov> In-Reply-To: <19990408105937.M1798@shale.csir.co.za>
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> *NICE TO HELP* Mozilla currently has no crypto code, since they can't > work on it without getting their wrists slapped (they even had to > remove the MD5 code...). It would be nice if some FreeBSD people > could help out. What was the logic behind forcing out the MD5 code? I thought that since it's a one-way hash, the US government was pretty much OK with it. A lot of other open source products ship include it. (Like FreeBSD itself...) It sounds like once again, we need to find someone outside the US who can provide a server and maintain a crypto patch. The good news is that it should be possible to use OpenSSL for the actual crypto operations and key handling; and just need someone to implement the glue. > The 'application' is really something called an AppCore, which loads a > XUL (cross-platform user interface markup language?) file, which is an > XML language for describing applications. This file is parsed into an > Application Object Model (AOM) like the HTML DOM, and uses JavaScript to > register all of the services it requires. It's appearance is controlled > by CSS2 style sheets, which allow it do have 'skins'. The entire UI is > then controlled via JavaScript, and can have portions (like a new menu) > downloaded from the Net, allowing web sites to add menus and toolbars to > the browser. There's also a bunch of stuff about "RDF datasources" > which goes way over my head... I assume there's some way of -preventing- Web sites from mucking with the menus and toolbars? And a way to ensure that if they do, there will be some positive indication to the user that it has been done? (I shudder to think what a malicious cracker could do by replacing the menus and toolbar with another one that looks exactly the same...) > As a result of all this, the browser and mail/news are about 3MB > (without the debug code) and already has more functionality than the 4.x > series (other than security). The unix version is currently based on > GTK+, which adds extra size and slows it down... If I had more time I'd > really like to write a pure XLib GFX layer, since most of the widgets > are already written in XP code, but I think mozilla.org is fairly cosy > with Redhat... Hmm. I kind of liked the GTK+ idea on the theory that it would adapt to the same theme setting as everything else; but it sounds like it might not adapt that well anyway. I wonder how hard it would be to write a JavaScript module to translate a GTK theme description into the CSS2... -Pat P.S. As you can probably guess from the tone of my questions, I have not been following Mozilla.org; due primarily to lack of spare cycles. But I really would like to have a fully featured open source browser available for FreeBSD; if only so that I could track down the occasional crash... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mozilla" in the body of the message
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