Re: Browser re-org

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti gmail com>]

Hi Bryan,

this all sounds pretty cool and I think it would be way more effective
than a rendering engine switch, if we want to try one time again to
take over the world ;)

Just a few comments:

- I agree we should try this in an experimental branch and that it
should possible to easily change/rewrite every part of the UI. Though
basing it on pymozembed or similars could be too low level, a lot of
needed features may not work properly, and that would stop people to
try it out.
I dont know much about python bindings works but... wouldnt be
possible to just write a different EphyWindow in python (even by
patching the code in a branch, I dont think that would be a big
problem).

- I think we should keep this easy to try out for people, even if
experimental/incomplete code wise. For example I'd avoid to add
dependencies like mono/lucene. IHMO better to use something simple
even if it will not have a cool indexer. This is something we can deal
later, when we found ideas that are worth spending a lot of time for a
good implementation.

- I must have said it a few times but... I think history/bookmarks are
totally obsolete/unused tools. Replacing them in a mature project is
going to cause disasters like we had for our somewhat different
bookmarks system. But experimenting new ways of solving some practical
problems, like those Bryan enumerated is going to be fun and I'd hope
productive

- A lot of work is gone in extensions and bindings lately. I think
this would be a good way to use some of that stuff to actually change
people browsing experience.

- These sort of extensions, or whatever they end up to be, will
interest a lot more people than, say, developer extensions. So they
should bring more feedback, ideas and hopefully patches.

Marco