On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Craig Latta wrote:

> 
> Hi there--
> 
> 	I'd like to make a Squeak system which can install and start itself via
> a website visitor's web browser, and automatically go into full-screen
> mode, all without any user interaction beyond visiting the page.
> 
> 	Is this currently possible? 

Not without ASMOP ;-)

> I'm assuming that it'd involve some sort of
> Netscape-Plugin/Java/JavaScript magic on Mac and Unix, and ActiveX magic
> on Windows.

It's impossible to get right for each and every incarnation of browsers :-(

The closest thing to your wishes is Netscape's SmartUpdate, which, as far
as I know, only works in 4.x browsers, but is a cross-platform solution.
It's pretty nice when you got it working. For a developer's perspective 
see http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/communicator/jarman/contents.htm
for users, http://help.netscape.com/smartupdate/

There must be a similar thing for ActiveX controls in IE. I'm not aware of 
any automatic installation support in Mozilla/Opera/Konqueror/whatever. 
Maybe one could hack something in Java, provided one can aquire file write 
permissions. I think there is an Applet API that allows this.

-- Bert