[Bf-funboard] Integrated Blender Web Browser Proposal

Martin Poirier bf-funboard@blender.org
Tue, 6 Jan 2004 10:00:34 -0800 (PST)


--- Robert Wenzlaff <rwenzlaff@soylent-green.com>
wrote:
> At 03:03 PM 1/6/04 +0100, you wrote:
> 
> > > 
> >
>
http://cardiffhigh.cardiff.sch.uk/~daniel.cook/blender/proposals/broswer/proposal.html
> >
> >Mmh,far as I understand, a web-browser is quite a
> complex beast.
> >Maybe if already existing components could be used
> (gecko)?
> >
> >But I guess it's overkill. Better make that a help
> browser with
> >very specific functionlity, just to get it's job
> done.
> >Of course a direct way to acess docs from the web
> would be
> >nice, but that doesn't mean it must be a complete
> web-browser.
> 
> Why not just allow the user to supply a command line
> to invoke his/her own 
> browser via a system function call.?

There's a python module that does that, so we could
try borrowing the code :)

Martin

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