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 > _____________________________________________