[ros-general] (no subject)

[Robert Köpferl]

I agree.

There exists a ActiveX-control of gecko : 
http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm

It resembles most of the interfaces and the most importand DOM.
The dom is however not compleetely compatible, and forseeable never will be.

It's importand to also be able to embed ActiveX-controls, which is the 
project you mentioned. AFAIK this is accomplished by these projects.

Technically it happens the following:
COM-objects (=ActiceX-control) have to be recistered via an GUID in 
Registry to be found. There is essentally a link from an interface GUID 
to a DLL. Since the gecko ActiveX-Control implements the same Interface 
as IE, there's no problem. There should however be a dedicated GUID for 
gecko (which is the case) (to instantiate gecko explicitely).
So installing IE on ROS would overwrite the GUID ant make it point to an 
IE-dll.
What we still need is a browser interface (GUI). Firebird can make this 
part. There can however also be some kind of ActiveX-Container like 
IEXPLORE.EXE is. I don't care about that.
In order to reduce redundancy (not two geckos on one system) either 
firebird should exist in a ROS-version or ROS should provide an 
ActiveX-container.
A ROSified Firebird could for example provide also the Mozilla ActiveX 
Control and update it. This would imply that we have a talk at 
Mozilla.org and invite them in our plans (which I would suggest)