[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 10/10/02 10:20:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > What are the advantages of putting a browser inside on your app's window? > What sort of apps are you folks making? > > > Well, I can speak for the app that I'm trying to make - - - a DSL Router > configuration tool. Revolution presently launches IE in my app which takes > the user to the ISP's registration server, and has them put in all their > credit card data and so forth via a secure connection. This goes on for a > couple of pages. Then on the last page of registration, they get a new > username/password. This username password then needs to get routed back to > Revolution from IE and passed back to the DSL Router via HTTP Post through > port 80. I'm able to do all of this by kludging together Applescript calls > and Revolution calls, however it would be MUCH cooler if I could have the > browser embedded in Revolution, so then I could sniff for the html of the > username password right from within Revolution instead of relying on > Applescript to do all the legwork of capturing the html source of that last > page and passing variable-data back to Revolution. > > The reason I can't do it presently in Revolution is because the html rendering > isn't displaying properly with all the tables they have, and I'd need security > with e-commerce send-form data. If Revolution could have it's embedded > browser that would work on both Mac and PC, then my registration app would be > cross platform. I also wouldn't have to do the checks for the presence of IE > or installing of IE. I'd gladly pay extra for this feature. Macromedia > Director can't do this presently either, but I know it's in high demand. I'm > happy with Revolution now, but I'd be even happier of it could embed a > browser.
Sounds like the critical component is not HTML rendering as much as HTTPS -- did I understand that correctly? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Custom Software and Web Development for All Major Platforms Developer of WebMerge 2.0: Publish any database on any site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
