In article <9c9bpl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chris Melville"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Currently Mozilla is a browser (Navigator), with additional
> "applications" like Communicator/Composer. However I am interested
> in generalising its design so that it becomes a generic application
> platform in which plug-in applications (lets call them PIAs, not to
> be confused with the current browser plug-ins) run.
See http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54356
Separate apps should look like separate apps to the OS/window manager
apps switcher.
Another problem with running apps within an app is that they all crash
together. It would be better if Mozilla's framework could serve multiple
separately crashable processes like toolkits usually can.
> 4) On startup Mozilla looks for the installed PIAs and makes them
> accessible
> via the lower panel (from which Communicator/etc are currently accessed).
That would duplicate funtionality already provided by the OS or window
manager for all normal apps.
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Henri Sivonen
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http://www.clinet.fi/~henris/
