Re: Browsing technology for Gnome? Mozilla?

[Sean Middleditch <sean middleditch iname com>]

That's what Bonobo does.  Check into it.

Sean Middleditch

Miles Lane wrote:

> Sean Middleditch wrote:
> >
> > I believe he means embedding it in other programs, or having the programs
> > control Mozilla's behaviour... I believe Mozilla is going to be a bonobo
> > component or something of that nature, yes?
>
> That's part of my question.
>
> I think one of the goals of applications under development for the Gnome Office
> project is that much of their internal code can be called and used within other
> applications.
>
> Micro$oft has in-place editing and so on, where MS Office apps can be accessed
> within IE's browser windows.  I am wondering if anything like that is being explored
> with Mozilla and the Gnome Office apps.
>
> Another example, let's say I am developing a program and I want my program to
> have a spreadsheet view in a tabbed window and a browser display in another.
> Perhaps I could do this by embedding a Gnumeric view in the one window and
> a Mozilla browser view in the other.  Perhaps I want to be able to drag and
> drop images and text from the browser window into the spreadsheet.  Obviously,
> I could do this by running multiple programs.  But it seems to me that developers
> might want to use Gnome Office and Mozilla as building blocks for new applications.
>
>         Miles
>
> > Sean Middleditch
> >
> > joedecker@patmos-international.com wrote:
> >
> > > I really have not had any trouble using Mozilla in GNOME.  Could u
> > > elaborate more on your problems with it?
> > >
> > > On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Miles Lane wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > One of the core productivity applications these days has
> > > > got to be a web browser.
> > > >
> > > > Since Gnome's programming interfaces and standardized UI theming
> > > > are powerful ways to create a very consistent user experience,
> > > > it would seem to me that Gnome users could benefit greatly from
> > > > a Gnome-aware web browser.
> > > >
> > > > To this end, is there a group of Gnome developers who are working
> > > > with the Mozilla folks to make Mozilla capable of functioning in
> > > > a tightly-coupled manner with Gnome?
> > > >
> > > > One interesting possibility might be exposing Mozilla functionality
> > > > to Gnome development, where Gnome programs could embed some of the
> > > > various browser functionality.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >       Miles
> > > >
> > > >
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