On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Enrique Arizón Benito wrote:
> I have been having a look around DIA.
> I think it's one of the most useful programs I have
> seen in a lot of time.
> I was thinking the possibility to add http support so
> we can use it like a substitute for traditional
> navigators like MS Explorer or Netscape and HTML based
> documents.
> I have not a full understanding of source code but I
> think it's only needed to add a little wrapper around
> file load. For example, when doublecliking in an
> element just adding the "Open document in new window"
> button to the properties dialog and then calling http
> methods to get a temporary file that is after loaded
> in the normal way.
That's an interesting idea, to say the least. I guess all regular HTML can
be rendered with Dia. I'd say the 'Open document in new window' should be
a middle button item on the text object. But things like JavaScript and
Flash would be more problematic. I'm thinking that if we have HTML import,
we could just open URLs by downloading like Gimp does, and then have the
Text object simply have a 'Open file' item that would open any file, local
or URL.
_Lars
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