I found on this forum a post from last April, about embedding Gecko in Internet Explorer. At the time it seemed like it was just an idea. I wonder if anyone has followed through on it.
Here is the problem: 1) Right now developers can write an GUI front end application in XUL that looks beautiful in Mozilla and Netscape, etc... 2) Same application doesn't do anything in Internet Explorer or other browsers like Opera/Safari. 3) Unfortunately IE has 90% market share so let's put Opera and Safari aside for now. 4) If I as a software developer write an XUL application, 90% of the world will have a hard time using it. 5) So I can't write my application in XUL no matter how good XUL is. The solution: 1) Create a plug-in for Internet Explorer that embeds enough of Mozilla into Internet Explorer so that Internet Explorer can run a GUI built in XUL (sort of like the Macromedia Flash Player does for Flash MX applications). 2) Make the plug-in require little or no user intervention to download and make it as small as possible whether or not the user has Mozilla already installed. 3) Make the plug-in open source. 4) Hype the crap out of the fact that this thing exists to web developers everywhere. The result: Create a open source, platform independant, cross browser run time environment for delivering rich client applications over the web that can reach almost everybody. It creates in very fertile ground for a whole new paradigm in web development that trumps Microsoft Web Forms, Microsoft Avalon (Longhorn), Macromedia Flash/Flex, Java Server Pages and Java Server Faces because the whole solution is open - plus it let's me do my application in XUL :-). Anybody have any thoughts on this? Has it already been done, but quietly, or am I missing something? _______________________________________________ mozilla-embedding mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-embedding
