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Howdy again!<BR>
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That's awesome to get such feedback in my first email to this group.<BR>
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So, right now I am busy on making the code compile in my computer. And I already have some thoughts (I'm gonna post it here in the lack of better known place - please tell me where to discuss this kind of thing.. trac?).<BR>
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From what I observed, the Netscape plugin was written using the Java plugin API and JNI. This works fine (I don't know about efficiency though) but, as interfacing with the Game Engine (and thus C/C++) using yet another will make things a little harder to maintain. So, I'm up to reimplementing it in C or C++ (maybe we could simply translate the interface and then fix the broken things.. but it will depend on how the Mozilla's C API is is based on the Netscape's Java one... ).<BR>
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As for the IE plugin, I don't even know if there is another way of writing plugins, but the good thing of ActiveX is that we can plug this very same code into other microsoft applications, such as PowerPoint (which I see as a good thing (tm) as it'll will give some more functionality to presentations and maybe help to promote blender itself).<BR>
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I don't know a thing about Safari and HTML Kit, but I think as Konqueror can use Mozilla's plugins they should be compatible (maybe the exact same code.. but compiled for different OSes).<BR>
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Being a Linux user I should start with the Firefox plugin. This will give us a multi platform plugin right away and then we can focus on IE.<BR>
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By the way, I am assuming we can use Erwin changes and that both plugins share the base code (including the Python sandbox).<BR>
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Any thoughts or considerations?<BR>
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