My question is how hard it would be to make a plugin for IE, so that pages requiring the plugin could be rendered with gecko.
I've been looking at XUL as a platform, but I note that right off the bat, 75% of my users wouldn't be able to use the functionality since it's mozilla specific. Realistically, most mom and pop users are going to be leary about installing another browser on their system, and some will even be confused about which browser they need to start up for which web application. Comparatively, plugin installation is relatively automated and transparent to the user. Most users are already familiar with a number of plugins (at the very least, flash). On the application developer side, displaying XUL to IE users would be as simple as detecting ie and redirecting them to a page that contained plugin tags pointing back to the XUL page they were redirected from. How hard would it be to embed the necessary components to render XUL in IE via a plugin? Just as importantly, after all of the non essentials had been stripped out, how large would the plug-in be? _______________________________________________ dev-embedding mailing list dev-embedding@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-embedding
