Making a browser with Rev

[Bill Marriott]

Plugins are actually a different matter... and not a simple yes/no. You're 
going to be able to get Flash animation, for example. But the "SoThink SWF 
Catcher" plug-in (which lets you decompile SWF files) won't be available. 
You won't get a popup blocker; but you won't get popups either. I'm not a 
user of altBrowser (I haven't needed the functionality yet), but from what I 
can see you don't get IE right-click menus, IE button bars, or any of the 
other UI "chrome." What you will get is identical rendering of a web page to 
how it would be rendered in the system's browser.

"Your own interface to create plugins?" -- I really don't know what you mean 
by this but to my knowledge the SDKs for Safari and IE are not designed for 
Revolution coders.

Revolution does have the ability to open a web page in a separate window 
using the system browser... revGoURL <url> is the command.

In any event, altBrowser is a free download (nicely documented with samples) 
to try before you buy, and so is Revolution... should be easy enough to see 
if it does what you want. And its author, Chipp Walters, is a daily visitor 
to this discussion list.

"Mark Smith" <mark at maseurope.net> wrote in message 
news:9F24D873-43FC-42F5-A045-875755171D99 at maseurope.net...
> Jack, I'm pretty sure that altBrowser uses the actual browser engine  the 
> user has on their machine, so whatever browser plugins they have 
> installed will also be working in altBrowser. I expect Chipp Walters  will 
> fill us in on the facts in a little while.
>
> Best,
>
> Mark
>
> On 3 Jun 2006, at 08:50, Jack Tsu wrote:
>
>>  I'm still kind of worried about specific things, like how to  provide my 
>> own interface to create plug-ins, since I assume my app  can't use IE or 
>> Safari plug-ins. I'd like to create a serious  browser for everyday use, 
>> not just a toy to hack with. But anyway,  altBrowser looks very promising 
>> and I think I might try it.
>
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