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1) Tofino (which has now ended) was just an experimental testbed for trying some new browser concepts. It was easier for them to use Electron than to contend wi
by dblohm7 10y ago
1) Tofino (which has now ended) was just an experimental testbed for trying some new browser concepts. It was easier for them to use Electron than to contend with Gecko's ossified embedding APIs. Hopefully positron (https://github.com/mozilla/positron https://github.com/mozilla/positron) will allow us to use Gecko in the future.
2) Firefox iOS uses WebView not by choice, but because of Apple's App Store restrictions.
- bobajeff 10y agoI didn't know Tolfino was ended already. I'm curious as whether the experiment ran it's course or if it was resources issue.
- dblohm7 10y agoIt ran its course. It was only supposed to be a three month project. See the original announcement: https://medium.com/project-tofino/browsers-innovators-dilemma-and-project-tofino-ef634c6164f0#.zi9xvtsl7 https://medium.com/project-tofino/browsers-innovators-dilemm...