Re: Advice for embeding an application in Firefox

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Peter Marquardt wrote:
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| Am 17.07.2008 um 17:00 schrieb Kevin DeKorte:
|> Peter,
|
|> Even with Xembed you can't do what you want to do. Your best option
|> would be to use a remote X term via ssh.
|
|> Here is what a plugin could do.
|
|> 1. You could specify a specific mimetype (application/x-term)
|> 2. put an embed tag on your web page like
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|> 	<embed mimetype='application/x-term' host='myhost.com' width=400
|> height=300>
|
|> 3. Write a plugin that handles the mimetype
|> 4. Have the plugin read the host variable and then open an ssh
|> connection to myhost.com
|> 5. The plugin would need to grab the window that is opened and
|> embed it
|> via Xembed into the browser window, or just leave it floating on your
|> desktop.
|
|> I think the mozilla sample plugin is much easier to follow in this
|> case.
|
|> But really a shell script would be easier to maintain and easier to
|> deploy.
|
|> Kevin
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| Kevin,
|
| that's exactly what i had in mind... I still can't figure, why
| Christophe-Marie would want to do this.
| I only skimmed the xembed docs, but they sound enthusiastic about
| being able to embed nearly any applications output into nearly any
| other app, so i thought this might be possible.
|
| regards,
| Peter Marquardt

Another problem he may run into if he does this, is that firefox likes
to grab the keyboard and not give it to embedded applications. So that
might be a problem as well.

Kevin


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