- From: Gordon Worley <redbird@orlando.crosswinds.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:25:07 -0500
- To: "Inanis Brooke" <alatus@earthlink.net>, www-html <www-html@w3.org>
Inanis Brooke wrote: >Why doesn't the W3C write plugins / activeX controls which "patch" a >browser's support for HTML4, CSS, XML, etc., much in the way Sun made a >plugin replacing the browser's proprietary Java engine with Sun's standard >Java engine? The W3C is a standards orginazation that makes recomendations to UA developers. It would be up to the UA developers to do this. What you want to do is simillar to the way Apple's now defunct OpenDoc technology works. They even developed a UA called CyberDog that was made-up of a browser object, mail object, ftp object, and so on. Then, any OpenDoc developer could reuse, say, the browser object if they needed to render HTML in their OpenDoc application. You might still be able to find information at <http://opendoc.apple.com/>, but as of late Apple has been cleaning out their various Web sites. If this URL doesn't work, head over to <http://www.apple.com/developer/> and look around to see if you can find a section on OpenDoc. Hope this is helpful. ________________________________________ Red Bird Island Productions Gordon Worley http://www.crosswinds.net/orlando/~redbird/ mailto:redbird@orlando.crosswinds.net
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