Nice work - I'd ask if you can get it to do that, and then shut down your computer without having to click on anything, but you might actually do it - which could be annoying... *lol*
So the only arguments I have left against ActiveX are its lack of cross platform portability (it depends on Windows APIs, does it not?) and the fact that it can (if granted access by the user) install and run in the background without the user ever knowing about it... I think the hardest part to justify on the mozilla platform is the lack of portability to other platforms. Patrick Chris Hill wrote: >On 28 Nov 2001 05:19:21 GMT, DeMoN LaG <n@a> wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Hill) wrote in >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 27 Nov 2001: >> >>>I could write a Netscape plugin that ejected your CD-ROM, popped up >>>a message, and shutdown your computer. If I could convince you to >>>install it, it would work just fine. Netscape plugins are and >>>never have been limited to "browser functionality". Plugins are >>>NOT the same as Java. >>> >>Well then. Mozilla is completely open source, it's plugin APIs are >>available from lxr.mozilla.org, please do so. I will give you the >>benefit of the doubt that you can do this simply. I will even go as far >>as manually adding the plugin to my plugins folder. I would love being >>able to hit a button in my browser and opening my CD tray. >> > >It doesn't matter that Mozilla is open source, the Netscape plugin API >has been public for a long time and it is a binary interface. > >Here you go: >http://members.aol.com/Chris244/eject.html > >Chris Hill >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
