Re: Advice for embeding an application in Firefox

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Peter Marquardt wrote:
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| 2008/7/21 Christophe-Marie Duquesne <[email protected]
| <mailto:[email protected]>>:
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|     :) It's true that what I want to do is odd.
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|     Do you know vimperator? http://vimperator.mozdev.org/
|     It's a firefox extension written in javascript for browsing the web
|     with the vim shortcuts. If you are a vim user, you will love it.
|     Have a look at it, if you don't know, it's really great.
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|     There is still a key feature missing in this extension, it's the
|     ability to use vim to edit text in your browser. There have been
|     hacky attempts to code the vim behaviour for text fields in
|     javascript, but it is still buggy and not very enjoyable to use :
|     for example, I think that would be great if you could use your
|     .vimrc. You should also be able to execute external commands with
|     ':!external_command'. And you cannot save files. That is why I
|     believe being able to embed a terminal in place of text fields would
|     be great, because it would allow you all those things, and much more
|     : you could run ANY program from firefox, I find that quite exciting.
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| I'm actually quite happy, that my browser doesn't do this. Being able to
| run any program is a huge security problem in my opinion.
| Which shortcuts do you miss? And what advantage would your vimrc bring
you?
| To execute an external comand, i hit Alt-F2, though i think that's a
| kde-only feature.
| Saving files? From a text box? Copy and Paste should do the trick.
| Don't get me wrong, i'm not against your idea, but i'd like to
| understand, why you want to go through the hassle of coding a plugin
| with a potentially huge security risk to achieve things that can be done
| otherwise.
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|     So at the moment, I am just asking if that could be possible to
|     those who have already done a good job in embeding another
|     application. I think it is a good way to start. I'm still reading
|     the xembed specifiaction, and I don't know where to start yet, but
|     hopefully, as soon as I'll feel ready, I'll start something.
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|     Thanks for having answered to my questions, any remark is welcome.
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| curiously,
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| Peter Marquardt
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I know this is a low traffic list, but we are pretty far offtopic.. so
lets close out this thread..

Thanks,

Kevin




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