Dan wrote:
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?
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