Your wish sounds similar to the GRE, which is a way of packaging Mozilla for embedding that is supposed to be available on Windows in Mozilla 1.2. However, the GRE is not planned to be cross-platform in the sense of supporting all the platforms that Mozilla currently supports. In particular, developers at Mozilla and Netscape are pushing to drop any Mozilla support for Mac OS Classic, that is, any version less than Mac OS X. If this would impair your cross-platform development, it might be a good idea to write [EMAIL PROTECTED] explaining your need for cross-platform embedding.
The GRE (formerly the MRE) is discussed at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/embedding/MRE.html and in a number of Bugzilla bug reports. --- Benjamin Smedberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK, there is not currently a plan for a > cross-platform plugin > architecture. However, gerv said that he thought > there had been some talk > of this, at least, if not a design. I would like to > implement a > cross-platform plugin architecture for XUL, using > XPCOM technology to avoid > having to code plugins three times for different > platforms. Before I > present my detailed plans, I wanted to see if a > pre-existing plan exists of > which I am unaware. > > The goal with this plugin technology is to extend > XUL so that application > developers who are using XUL for "other" projects > besides browsers can have > an extended drawing palette: for example for the > Gregorian chant typesetting > program I am programming, the UI would be designed > in XUL, manipulating a > central plugin object. This plugin object would be > written in XP C++, and > would do its drawing using the GFX interfaces, > rather than native system > calls in a window. > > ** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ** > ** Benjamin Smedberg, Director of Music ** > ** St. Patrick's Church, Washington D.C. ** > ** VOX 202-347-2713 x102 - FAX 202-347-1401 ** > ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** > ** "Soli Deo Gloria" ** > ** ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ** > > > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com
