There is something called Mozilla ActiveX: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm
I'm not sure what are its distro requirements "SOFIA Team" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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
