[Design] Thoughts on a browser parcel

[Heikki Toivonen]

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If anyone is interested in creating such an extension for Mozilla, the
best place in my opinion would be the http://mozdev.org website that
houses dozens of Mozilla extensions and add-ons. I also think this
extension would work better than embedding a browser in Chandler - you
would get best of both programs with relatively small amount of work.

Mitchell Kapor wrote:

| To be able to save clippings or pages to the Chandler repository
| wouldn't seem to require embedding a browser as much as creating a
| conduit between the browser and Chandler.  In fact, it's reasonable to
| believe a Mozilla plug-in could be created which would do just this,
| i.e., populate the repository with items generated by the browser.
| Embedding a browser, per se, raises all sorts of complex user interface
| issues which may be unnecessary and avoidable.  That said, such a
| project is something which would need to be undertaken by an external
| developer, as it's not on spec for Canoga.
|
|
| On Nov 21, 2003, at 7:09 AM, Tom Mueller wrote:
|
|> Has there been any talk about a browser parcel (capplet?)  Might it be
|> possible to "just" (easy enough for me to say, I realize) package
|> Firebird
|> as a parcel?  The idea of having an embedded browser, with which I could
|> save clippings or entire pages directly into the searchable, massagable,
|> intertwinglable Chandler repository, fills me with great joy.  This might
|> also be a quick way to show many people the light about Chandler -
|> lots of
|> browsers out there, and scads of databases, but the world is crying
|> out for
|> a happy marriage of the two.
|> Best,
|> TBM
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