Wow, that's great news. But I couldn't get it to work on my PC. I guess there is some more setup I have to do? Which raises an interesting question. What would it take to wrap a ribbon around this thing such that it downloads and self configures with minimal user intervention and also makes it so you could "taunt the plug-in" (in other words make is industial strength enough so even the dumbest end user would have a hard time breaking it)? It seems like such a small thing, with huge ramifications. It would put XUL on the map as a viable alternative to developing with all those closed technologies.
"St�phan S�mirat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >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
