Gecko plugin for Safari?

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Vincent - 10 Oct 2003 19:22 GMT

Hi all,

I just went through the relevant links on mozilla.org and mozdev, but
I'm still unsure: how easy/hard is it to create a Gecko plugin for the
Safari browser? What current project would best serve that purpose?

We'd like to offer Safari users a good browsing experience, but at the
moment Safari does not handle our DHTML well enough by far. So ideally,
we'd supply a plugin that would simply allow Gecko to take over the
Safari window. Stuff like bookmarking and previous/next has no top
priority, but it would be nice.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated - we're getting slightly
mad trying to implement workarounds.

TIA,
Vincent

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Riiscy - 10 Oct 2003 21:23 GMT

Simple... you can't but you could use Chim-Chim... if it's still called
that... and if that still builds to reinvent the safari interface on a
gecko driven browser...

Better yet... give the Camino project some help... file bugs for things
that bug you and submit patches for those bugs...

> Hi all,
>
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> TIA,
> Vincent

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Vincent - 13 Oct 2003 09:55 GMT

Camino does a great job already, it runs 99% of our code correctly! It's
just not Safari... Actually, the fact that both Mozilla and Camino work
fine on the Mac led us to believe this plugin would be doable and
worthwhile.

Thanks for the pointer to Chim Chim, but I didn't find that much about
it, though. http://www.mozilla.org/ports/fizzilla/ChimChim.html contains
info about Camino, but
http://www.mozilla.org/ports/fizzilla/Cocoazilla.html seems more
interesting. I'll ask Mr. Pinkerton about this.

thx.

> Simple... you can't but you could use Chim-Chim... if it's still called
> that... and if that still builds to reinvent the safari interface on a
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>> TIA,
>> Vincent

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Greg K. - 12 Oct 2003 09:34 GMT

> I just went through the relevant links on mozilla.org and mozdev, but
> I'm still unsure: how easy/hard is it to create a Gecko plugin for the
> Safari browser? What current project would best serve that purpose?

Out of curiosity, when you say Safari doesn’t handle your DHTML, what do
you mean? Do you mean it performs poorly, or that it doesn’t support
some feature(s)?

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Vincent - 13 Oct 2003 10:04 GMT

The usual: poor javascript debugging, problems downloading xml data
seperately, problems with scrollbars in <div>s, etc.

Vincent

>> I just went through the relevant links on mozilla.org and mozdev, but
>> I'm still unsure: how easy/hard is it to create a Gecko plugin for the
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> you mean? Do you mean it performs poorly, or that it doesn’t support
> some feature(s)?

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Gecko plugin for Safari?