Vaughn Treude said:
> Opera - maybe even Lynx. I've tried Googling this subject but it's a
> toughie because most of the returns are on using a browser to perform
> RPC, not "remote control" of a browser. Well, it actually wouldn't be
> "remote control" but I didn't know what else to call it in the search.
> :-) I've looked at browser specific howto's for Mozilla and Galeon
> but I'm not sure where to find the developer-type info rather than the
> user-type info. I
I always referred to such "listner" functions as "callbacks". Perhaps
searching for callback function and the brower name would be of help?
> 'm vaguely familiar with things like CORBA and SOAP but I'm under the
> impression that you use those to communicate with a server somewhere,
> not to manipulate a local web client. I know the "remote control"
Well they are designed to be a "server" because of the listening nature.
However, nothing prevents a client application like Mozilla from
publishing "servers" that listen for events... There is no rule that a
server and client must be on different machines. There is no rule stating
what we think of a client application cant have CORBA, SOAP, etc services.
> functionality must be possible because somebody's advertising a
> shareware product called JENNA which is supposed to support such
> browser enhancements as "slide show mode." (Or maybe it's just
> auto-generating an HTML or XML or Javascript file which you then have
> to load manually?) I'd appreciate the slightest hint to point me in
> the right direction - perhaps I'm using the wrong terminology.
> Many thanks in advance!
I would think you could do a "slideshow mode" with Javascript especially
in mozilla where you can radically alter the look of the browser.
-Derek
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