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Comment on Fluid vs. Fluidium vs. Cruz by Todd Ditchendorf

Todd Ditchendorf — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:46:39 +0000

Thanks Gand, glad you like Cruz! I also live on it as my daily browser, and it’s my favorite personal project.

To answer your request, yes Cruz is now effectively open source. the difference between Cruz and the Fluidium source will be extremely minor.

Comment on Fluid vs. Fluidium vs. Cruz by Gand

Gand — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:42:33 +0000

I’m a Cruz fan, it became my default browser, I love BrowsaBrowsa plug-in speeding up my Twitter and RSS fedd addiction. Happy to know that a new version of Cruz based on the Fluidium source code is coming soon. Hope it will release also as FOSS.

Comment on Fluid vs. Fluidium vs. Cruz by Todd Ditchendorf

Todd Ditchendorf — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:20:12 +0000

Hey Mike. Hm, interesting question. And the answer is rather complicated I’m afraid.

The auto-upgrade story for Fluidium SSBs created by developers for their own apps is kinda fuzzy right now. I’m not certain yet whether devs would prefer to have me basically centralizing the updates for everyone or whether they would like to handle that for themselves. Both will have benefits and drawbacks. And some devs will probably not like the idea of someone else controlling their update cycle. And I understand that.

So I guess Fluid’s Sparkle update schedule will be basically independent of Fluidium’s. I’m really still figuring this stuff out tho.

As for devs who download the Fluidium builds from GitHub or build a Fluidium SSB/browser from source, I don’t plan on ever offering auto updates for those.

Comment on Fluid vs. Fluidium vs. Cruz by Mike Cohen

Mike Cohen — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:10:48 +0000

How will automatic updates of SSBs work? If a SSB is built with Fluidium will it auto-update from Fluid’s updates & vice versa? Can a SSB be made to update to either ‘Fluid Nightlies’ or stable releases?

Comment on Fluid vs. Fluidium vs. Cruz by Todd Ditchendorf

Todd Ditchendorf — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:55:21 +0000

Yep.

Fluid will remain the “user-centric” or “consumer-targeted” app for creating SSBs for personal use.

And if you’re not a developer, you can ignore Fluidium except that it will be a sort of “Fluid Nightly” to Fluid, as “WebKit Nightlies” are to Safari.

Comment on Fluid vs. Fluidium vs. Cruz by TwisterMc

TwisterMc — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 02:45:13 +0000

Clear as mud.

So if I (average user) want to create a SSB, I still use Fluid.

Cruz is either nothing special or an up-and-coming browser.

Fluidium is either an up-and-coming browser or just something for developers.