>I think that Mozilla ActiveX lets you embed Mozilla as a browser for Windows >desktop applications that need browser functionality. Does it let you embed >Mozilla in Internet Explorer?
I think so, see http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozctltest1.htm > > >"Liora Bar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 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 _______________________________________________ mozilla-embedding mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-embedding
