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 = Current status =
-== October 7, 2009 ==
+== October 12, 2009 ==
+Via Chris Lord...
+The [http://hg.mozilla.org/incubator/offscreen headless branch of Mozilla that we work on] renders to system memory and it is up to the embedder to get this to a texture however they like. We have our own embedding library that uses this with Clutter
+[http://git.clutter-project.org/?r=clutter-mozembed clutter-mozembed] and we just upload each changed region to the texture.
+A possible speed-up is to use a shared memory pixmap and texture-from-pixmap (or whatever the platform's equivalent is), which
+would remove the need to copy from system to video memory.
+I wrote a (now out-dated, but still relevant) [http://chrislord.net/blog/Software/building-moblin-web-browser.enlighten guide on building the Moblin browser components] on my blog. There's also a [http://chrislord.net/files/moz-headless-screenshot.c short demo application I wrote] that just uses mozilla-headless alone to take a screenshot of a web-page.
+Unfortunately, there is no documentation beyond the standard Mozilla documentation and the source-code (and the above-mentioned links).
+I think the easiest way to port Firefox to android would be to write an android-backend (which could well be based on our headless backend) - I didn't think that the Android native development kit was fully featured enough to allow something like this though?
 = Previous statuses =