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Isn't the reason why many applications and libraries use Chromium due to Gecko's too Firefox-centric APIs? I read a post here on HN a few months (years?) ago w
by foepys 6y ago
Isn't the reason why many applications and libraries use Chromium due to Gecko's too Firefox-centric APIs?
I read a post here on HN a few months (years?) ago where a developer was really trying to use Gecko for their own application and got frustrated so much that they gave up and switched to Chromium.
- rascul 6y agoI've been led to believe that the APIs are mostly undocumented and often changing.
- dralley 6y agoGecko is architected to be used as a framework, not a library, which means it tries to dictate a lot of aspects of how your code is supposed to be structured. Whereas Webkit/Blink is the other way around. It predates KHTML/Webkit by several years so some additional legacy baggage is to be expected.