From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8NUz-000153-N3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:34:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7PJVopw028338; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:31:50 GMT Received: from Princeton.EDU (postoffice01.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.75]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7PJNPsO003129 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 19:23:25 GMT Received: from smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.65]) by Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j7PJOfbD014944 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:24:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from sep.dynalias.net (fez.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.190]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtpserver1.Princeton.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j7PJOesn015540 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:24:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: by sep.dynalias.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 657183B094; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:24:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 15:24:58 -0400 From: Willie Wong To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] activex support Message-ID: <20050825192458.GB3224@princeton.edu> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <558b73fb050825120155a40e56@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <558b73fb050825120155a40e56@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: d8f1d650-3bee-4f1c-a40c-e59a1d1f230e X-Archives-Hash: a593e70d41ce23fe100305d2328f4e99 On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 03:01:28PM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > On 8/25/05, James wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > Has anyone successfully used ActiveX with firefox or mozilla? > > > > http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm > > > > > I just took a look and it seems like this is a Windoze only thing. Linux > doesn't implement ActiveX anyhow. > > -Mike > Yep, quoth the website's FAQ Will there be a port to the Mac / Linux? Not unless someone volunteers to do it :) It would be an understatement to say it would be a non-trivial task. Wine might offer a way to port the Gecko / control to Linux / x86 Unix systems using the Win32 API but linking to WINELib. Note that the control uses ATL which might have certain licencing issues surrounding it. The alternative is to write an open source ATL look-a-like, with the subset of functionality that the control requires. The first task though is getting a clean build for the rest of Gecko against WINELib. <-----unsnip> Though it claims to work with Wine. W -- ...plus the chalk is down to nothing. The lecture is all but over. ~Prof. Kirk T. McDonald, DeathEM, P-town PHY 304 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 13 days, 22:23 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list