Re: GWT Developer Plugin on Safari 5.1 (OS X Lion 10.7) doesn't load

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Eric Ridge <eebbrr@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:55 PM, David Chandler <drfibonacci@google.com> wrote:
>> Good luck, Eric :-) It likely requires non-trivial changes (which is
>> why the GWT team hasn't done it yet).
>
> It's not clear yet what'll be required.  It looks like whoever wrote
> the current plugin did a pretty decent job of separating concerns.

What's required is a ton of work. The current plugin is tied directly
to the JavaScriptCore API which, as best I can tell, can't be made
available via the NPAPI. (if it could, the conversion would likely be
straight forward).

And since Safari 5.1 (WebKit2) runs plugins out-of-process, it makes
me think that the plugin would be terribly slow... similar to Chrome's
performance. But that's just conjecture.

If I had 2-3 weeks I could definitely get the plugin working, but
alas, hacking GWT Plugins is not in my RealJob description. Jurriaan
Mous' workaround is good enough for now.

And David, for what it's worth, the fact that this "likely requires
non-trivial changes" is all the more reason why the GWT team should
have started on it already. GWT is billed as being cross-platform,
and y'all have definitely put in tremendous effort making that true.
You've created something extremely powerful and developed a very large
and dedicated community. With that comes responsibility.

Your other email that said "Dev mode plugins are open source, so if
someone has interest in keeping them up to date, we're all ears..." is
a bit disingenuous. Sure, all of GWT is open source, but frankly, the
community views it as being developed and maintained solely by Google.
If what you're saying is that Google isn't going to maintain the
plugins anymore, that's a pretty big deal. But if you're just
complaining that the GWT team doesn't have the internal resources to
keep pace with browser vendors, then my previous suggestion stands...
hire someone to do that work.

eric

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