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Mozilla as GTK Widget

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the modern-software dept.

AT writes "The new Mozilla Gecko display engine has been embedded into a GTK widget. This means that you can embed webpages into your application, just like you might with an ActiveX control under Windows. " Can I embed mozilla in mozilla yet?

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  1. Excellent (if it's done right) by Jerky+McNaughty · · Score: 4

    As long as it's quick, I'd be a great way to display online help in an application. If it's done well, it'll be very popular.

    XEmacs can be a widget in an application, too, but I've never actually seen anyone use it for that, presumably because of incredibly extreme bloat. (It's great as an app, but as a widget!?)

    There are a couple of other really nice new gtk widgets: GtkSheet (a spreadsheet with inplace editing, widgets inside the sheet, etc.) and GtkPlot (a really nice plotting widget). You can see them right here

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  2. This is cool, but... by Amphigory · · Score: 4

    The "right" way to do this would be to make the gecko widget into a bonobo/baboon control that could be embedded in Gnome apps. I would assume that something similar could be done in the KDE world.

    This widget approach is not really directly comparable (as I understand) to the IE CaptiveX control. There is not going to be the kind of insulation between mozilla changes and this widget that a true component environment would provide.

    However, this could be a straw man kind of problem -- I haven't read the source.

    Very cool regardless!

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  3. Good idea but.... by tgd · · Score: 4

    Its a good idea. Too bad the current tree has been pretty well horked for the last day or two, and like a bonehead I forgot to check the tinderbox status before I pulled it.

    On another note though, for those who don't watch the mozilla status daily, M6 is probably going to hit the ftp site tommorrow they're saying...

    Its already been pulled into a new branch, and I think the general trouble (particularly with Linux builds) in the tree are on the main branch leading to M7.

    Hmmmm... maybe I'll pull the M6 branch and check this out. :)

  4. Embedding Mozilla by Industrial+Disease · · Score: 4

    One of the most amusing things I've seen out of Mozilla was the screenshot of Gecko running as an ActiveX control in IE. Probably the only way IE is ever going to render Box Acid worth a damn.

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