Fwd: altBrowser Question and MAC version of altBrowser...

[Rodney Tamblyn]

Forwarded posting Chipp Walters, to use-revolution.  If members of this 
list are seriously interested in seeing a Mac external to display web 
content within a MC window, read on...

R.

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com>
> Date: Sun Jun 15, 2003  10:23:19 AM Pacific/Auckland
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: RE: altBrowser Question and MAC version of altBrowser...
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>
> Edwin,
>
> First a bit of a background on altBrowser.DLL.
>
> I originally wanted this capability for a client of mine. I wished to 
> build
> a custom browser with many set features, which also allowed his 
> customers to
> navigate only to specific places. Upon asking around, it turned out 
> Tuviah
> Snyder (of RR and MC fame) had already authored such a DLL. I asked him
> about it and found out it didn't do everything I needed, so I 
> negotiated the
> purchase of the source code, with the understanding any changes made 
> to it,
> I would make available back to Tuviah. My partner, Chris Bohnert, an
> accomplished C programmer himself, would be able to make the *other*
> changes.
>
> I also contacted Kevin at RunRev and asked his interest in RR using 
> the DLL
> inside their own product. He responded by saying they would consider 
> it IF
> there was cross-platform support. Well, Chris and I weren't in a 
> position to
> build a Mac version. Tuviah said he'd consider it. That's were we are 
> now.
> Tuviah is still interested in building a 'Safari' version, if people 
> are
> interested. Recently, we chatted and floated the number of $75 for both
> versions...Mac and PC. Neither of us are planning on this as a 
> significant
> revenue stream. We would of course like to recover our expenses, and 
> pay for
> the inevitable support which is needed.
>
> So, those of you *seriously* interested in the Mac version, please 
> fill out
> the form at the bottom of this page.
>
> http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/altBrowser.htm
>
> When I say seriously interested, I mean there's a great chance you'd be
> willing to pay for this product. The decision on how to prioritize it's
> development is based upon how many serious responses we get.
>
> Edwin, back to your question...
>
> Since I didn't write the source code for altBrowser, I asked Chris 
> Bohnert,
> one of the authors, and he said if it's not in there now, it's easy to
> implement. Of course, if you need to parse the data, you can always 
> 'get
> URL' as well. There are a couple of minor fixes we'll need to make in 
> the
> near future, I'll add this request as well. BTW, currently there is a
> feature which will allow you to 'get the requested URL' which will 
> allow you
> to intercept it, process it inside RR, then pass it on to the browser 
> (if
> you wish). So, if you write your HTML a certain way, you *can* process
> clicks on a page within RR.
>
> This product was written probably about a year ago, but Tuviah had to 
> made
> some changes to the MC engine for it to work properly -- so we couldn't
> release until RR2.0. This is why I'm a bit unclear regarding all of 
> it's
> features.
>
> -Chipp
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com
>> [mailto:use-revolution-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Edwin Gore
>> Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 1:42 PM
>> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>> Subject: altBrowser Question
>>
>>
>> Chipp,
>>
>> Figured the answer to this might be valuable to others, so I decded 
>> to put
>> it on the list.
>>
>> When using the altBrowser plug-in, is it possible to access the
>> data in the
>> browser? I'm wondering because for something I am woking on it would 
>> be
>> really neat to let users browse through a particular website and 
>> then, if
>> they see something they like, click a button which would cause my app 
>> to
>> grab some data off the site and do stuff with it.
>>
>> altBrowser gets fed the URL to go to by RunRev, is that correct? If 
>> so I
>> suppose that even if I can't directly pull the data out of the browser
>> plug-in, I could still grab and parse the url....
>>
>> Anyway, look forward to hearing the answers on this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Edwin Gore
>>
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