Kevin,

Making Squeak run as a plugin is a great idea, and you don't
even need to tear into the Mozilla source code to do it! There's
a Netscape Plugin SDK available from the Netscape web site
that gives you all the interfaces you need. What's more, I'm
pretty sure that this SDK produces plugins that work with
Internet Explorer as well as Netscape Navigator.

We actually had this working at one time (2.5 years ago),
but when I tried to get it going again, I got system errors
and I haven't had the patience to get to the bottom of the
problem. It's probably something trivial, perhaps having to
do with memory allocation...

If you're serious about this project, I can give you
pointers to the old hooks for doing this. If you're just
hoping someone else will do it, don't worry. Someone
probably will...

	-- John

 
At 7:14 AM -0400 4/29/99, Kevin Fisher wrote:
>Hi all:
>
>I've been playing around with the most recent CVS builds of Mozilla
>(www.mozilla.org) and I had a thought yesterday...since Mozilla is
>completely open source, it would seem the ideal browser to build some
>kind of Squeak plugin for. 
>
>I realize there is an ActiveX plugin floating around out there, but for
>us non-Windoze types it doesn't help a whole lot.  I'm just thinking it
>might be an ideal way to promote Squeak, the same way Netscape promoted
>Java.  And the thought of everyone having access to  Squeak Pages in
>their web browsers just makes me smile too...