tag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:/discussions/suggestions/3488-cooperation-with-pale-moon-possible-the-post-xul-scenarioTenFourFox: Discussion 2020-11-06T19:16:39Ztag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/424616852017-04-30T23:09:13Z2017-04-30T23:12:06ZCooperation with Pale Moon possible? The post-XUL scenario.<div><p>Their response is somewhat disappointing, but if they feel it doesn't offer them anything, that's their call, I suppose. The idea would have been to jointly help backport security patches and in return to offer a baseline Mac build that works. That said, if their major interest is only current Macs, that does certainly clash with our priorities because it would be unacceptable to us (and me) to run a project that doesn't support 10.4.</p>
<p>Conversely, though, we don't gain anything by using them as an upstream. Without going into great detail, Goanna is too different from Gecko to be beneficial to us, and we would lose some features by using Pale Moon as a code base.</p>
<p>I do think there is some fundamental misunderstanding on Pale Moon's part of what TenFourFox actually does (I've lurked periodically in the forums); as you know, it's not merely a port to restore compatibility (which is itself a big job), but also value-adds other PowerPC features such as a PowerPC JavaScript JIT and AltiVec support for VPX and other media codecs, and all that requires substantial additional development. The real question is whether they think that's worth it to them and clearly they don't, so that's that.</p>
<p>I guess it was a nice thought, anyway.</p></div>Cameron Kaisertag:tenfourfox.tenderapp.com,2012-01-07:Comment/424616852017-05-01T11:41:00Z2017-05-01T11:41:01ZCooperation with Pale Moon possible? The post-XUL scenario.<div><p>@Cameron Kaiser:</p>
<p>There are some serious issues plaguing the Mac build of Pale Moon, more here: <a href="https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=15254">https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=15254</a> I had some hope that somebody with skills like yours would be able to fix them, as the Pale Moon team is (according to themselves) lacking OS X development expertise (hasn't been the focus of the project).</p>
<p>I thought this would have been possible in exchange for them helping you to keep up the platform. It seemed beneficial for both sides to me.</p>
<p>However, don't overrate what Matt is stating in the thread. he is not representing the Pale Moon team, nor is he a member of it. You should take into consideration what Moonchild, Pale Moon's lead dev, is stating.</p></div>Pale as the Moon