On Mac we definitely want an objective-C wrapper around our framework.
That's what WebKit provides, and what all our consumers would
expect/demand.

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Avi Drissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've experienced CFPlugins, and I've never figured out why they use a
> COM-like system there. It adds a ton of complexity for no real benefit.
>
> I can't speak for other platforms, but using COM on the Mac is not needed
> when you have ObjC and its introspection capabilities. I don't see why a
> framework wouldn't do.
>
> Avi
>
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:40 PM, Marshall Greenblatt
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> As many of you probably know there's been talk of developing a
>> chrome-based ActiveX (COM) control for Windows.  But what about other
>> platforms?
>>
>> For OSX, Apple offers a COM-like framework called "Core Foundation
>> Plug-ins":
>>
>> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/CoreFoundation/Conceptual/CFPlugIns/CFPlugIns.html
>>
>> For linux, there's quite a collection of COM/CORBA-like implementations:
>> http://linas.org/linux/corba.html
>>
>> Or, getting away from COM, we have frameworks such as Qt, gtk+, wxWidgets,
>> etc.  What framework would you find the most useful for embedding a browser
>> control in your development project(s) on the linux and/or osx platforms?
>>
>> - Marshall
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> >
>



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