Sorry, I got a bit lost. Would you summarize in a sentence or two what you would like to do?
Thanks, Dave On Feb 8, 1:49 pm, Kevin Watters <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mac, Growl has a WebKit backend. I want web content in > notification popups (or toasts, or bubbles, or whatever you want to > call them) on Windows. Chrome as a Prism-killer would be a lot more > compelling if webapps could sit in the system tray and be able to > notify the user via fully interactive nicely skinned (glass, > transparency, etc) JS/CSS toasts. > > From contributing bits and pieces to wxWebKit I know my way around > WebKit, and I know it has the ability to render transparent pages (see > the mac Dashboard). What I'm not sure about is how such an idea would > be implemented in Chrome's architecture. > > My initial thought was that a slim process would sit in the tray and > use chrome.dll to do the rendering. I realize Chrome already has > complex notions about multiprocess rendering, so I don't quite know > how such a scheme would work--would growl-win.exe spawn a chrome.exe > just like the real browser, or is chrome.dll usable from a single > process? > > Anyways I just wanted to see if anyone have any thoughts on this, > either in general or specifically areas in the source I should check > out before I go start prototyping. Is this something that should wait > for the incoming plugin API? Something that already exists somewhere? > Thanks. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
