Mozilla ActiveX Control


	Mozilla ActiveX Control

travislaborde

4-6-2007 7:35 AM

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programming, firefox

travislaborde says:

this is the "add an activeX control to your windows forms app which is a browser control - but based on Mozilla instead of IE."

this is NOT "the ability to host ActiveX controls in Firefox.

Still - COOLIO MAN!

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                    control that could be embedded as in applications?"</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm"><P>That's a question that myself and other had asked on the Mozilla groups soon 
                    after the Mozilla project began. And further:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm"><P class="quote">"Wouldn't it be great if the Mozilla control used the same API as 
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                    An API close as possible to Internet Explorer's for ease of porting
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                    Freely available source code to allow for bug fixing, customization, etc.
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