Roland turner wrote:
> It might help to describe a component as a generalised plug-in. Plug-ins
> tend to have most of the above characteristics, but are tied to working
> with a single (type of) application. Components are intended to be tied
> to a framework that can be used for (almost) any kind of application. It
> may well make sense to implement plug-ins as components, if they stand
> any chance of having wider use than in the specific application that
> they were built for.
Interestingly, Mozilla plug-ins can now (as of a month or two ago) be written as XPCOM
components (XPCOM is Mozilla's cross-platform COM). Gives a browser plug-in writer a
lot more flexibility than the usual type of Netscape plug-in.
Bill
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