On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Michael Rogers <m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk> 
wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
>> All browsers suck for our purposes: there are just too many ways to break
>> security, and too many performance caveats. IMHO we have moved on from that
>> debate.
>>
>> The main problem with a firefox plugin/extension is that websites may be able
>> to probe specific Freenet URLs, e.g. via the img src/onLoad trick, or using
>> CSS link:visited, or some variation on the various port scanning exploits.
>> Hence my suspicion that we may be better off with an XULRunner-based app?
>
> Have a look at mozswing, it wraps xulrunner as a Swing component.
> LimeWire 5 uses it as an embedded browser. Eclipse also wraps xulrunner
> in Java for its help browser, though I don't know how.

Eclipse use SWT, that's yet another graphic toolkit alternative to awt / swing.


> Cheers,
> Michael
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