> materials. I want to allow content developers to use technologies like Java
> applets, JAVASCRIPT, dHTML, &c,
Content developers then could, of course, write ways to save content into
their Java and JavaScript. I take it you have control of all content?
> and not have any way built into the browser
> that would allow a user to save the developers' work to disk, view the
> source, or print it out ( a user should have no need for doing so since the
> material would all be readily accessable on the web from a website I intend
> to develop).
What happens if their web connection goes down? Or if they are in Europe,
and pay per minute for net access? What if they want to work with the data
on a train? Incorporate it into a report for their boss? How about a
presentation? Maybe they want to put it in a spreadsheet to rearrange it
in some way...
> objective here is to make it much harder and much more expensive to violate
> my copyrighted materials than it is to get access to them legally.
Is it not a legal grey area? If you take their data, process it and
re-present it, I think the user has a strong case that they retain the
copyright on the "new" version of their data. But this is a digression.
> I know I can do most, if not all, of what I want to do using the activex
> control from MS that uses the guts of IE. The question is can I do what I
> need to do with mozilla?
Mozilla can be embedded as an ActiveX control; however if you do this, you
are restricting yourself to the Windows platform.
> And what would the implications of it being open source be for my project?
> Since I am concerned with copyright security, I do not want to make my
> source code available.
You have to make the source available of any modifications you make to
files you get from the Mozilla project. If the files are all your own
work, you can keep them secret. However, mozilla.org would encourage you
to contribute as much of your work as you feel able back to the project
:-)
> And while I hope to establish a business involving
> Internet publishing, making money selling (inexpensively) access to useful
> information, I would NOT be selling my custom browser. Instead, it would be
> free to anyone who wanted to use it, or to anyone who wants to access my
> website.
Just for your information, this makes no difference to the licensing
situation.
> Another thing I want to do is make single use statistical analysis and
> environmental modelling applications in the form of DLLs, which, once a
> suitable fee (of the order of $5 to $20, depending on the analysis it does),
> the user would download, and then it could be run once by being loaded
> dynamically by the browser, run, unloaded, and then deleted by the browser.
Surely you want a Java applet?
I think you may have problems with the security model if you want to get
Mozilla to download arbitrary unfettered code to incorporate into itself,
but I'm no expert on these things.
> With reference to dhtml, I may wish to extend the document object model, for
> use with dhtml pages on my website. Would I be able to handle that using
> mozilla?
In what way? Does the current DOM not serve your needs?
> Finally, is, or will there be, a version of mozilla for Linux?
Mozilla compiles on approximately 15 platforms at last count, including
Windows (all versions from 95 upwards), MacOS and Linux. See
http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=SeaMonkey-Ports
for details of some of the more exotic platforms.
Gerv
