[11283] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Transformation services - interface design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Marshallsea)
Tue Apr 13 10:52:53 1999
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:21:03 -0400 (EDT)
Old-X-Envelope-From: www-talk-request@www10.w3.org Tue Apr 13 08:21:02 1999
From: "Jim Marshallsea" <pacman72@hotmail.com>
To: Ben@Wiesbaden.Netsurf.de, www-talk@w3.org
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Resent-From: gerald@w3.org
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>Hi,
>
>Mozilla will include an open interface for "Transformation
services". Wouldn't it make sense to standardize the interface, so
that all browsers on all platforms have the same interface and can
use the same "plugins"?
>
I suppose so :)
>The interface in Mozilla can be implemented as needed - so you have
competely freedom.
>The only main restriction is that the browser knows the installed
plugins to make it possible for the plugins-preferences dialog box to
provide an up-to-date list of available plugins.
>
>It would be nice, if the same binary could be used for all browsers
on one platform to support new browsers.
>
>Any ideas?
>
I thought that Java was intended for this purpose?
later...
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