> Is anybody working on this?  Based on what I've seen so far, I'm going 
> to assume not, and tenatively plan to start working on something like 
> this.  If anybody who reads this is already doing this, please let me know.


You might want to build on some of the work or ideas of XMLterm: 
http://www.xmlterm.org .

> In the meantime...  an important decision to be made is, do we want a 
> telent client that exists a completely seperate application, or do we 
> want an extension to mozilla, ala Chatzilla?


If it's a completely separate app, what's it got to do with Mozilla?

> On one hand, I'd like to see an integrated telnet client, but I have a 
> feeling that a really full-featured telnet client would be too big and 
> bloated to really justify doing it that way. 


Let me get this straight. Making a Mozilla telnet client, reusing its UI 
components, networking library, etc. would be _more_ bloated than doing 
it from scratch?

If you want a standalone telnet client, there are loads out there. If 
you want telnet:// support for Mozilla, that would be cool. Although I 
think some platforms support it already.

The real question is: is this the best use of your time, or would we be 
able to persuade you to come and help on really crucial stuff, like the 
1.0 buglist? :-)

Gerv


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