Ah yes, that seems to make sense. First thing, is it easy for users to write extentions? I have very breifly looked at one or two for firefox and it seems handy enough.
Secondly would I need Mozilla for this or could I use xoetrope? I'm beginning to think Mozilla may be better, seeing as firefox has been sucessful with it. Thanks again Wil Quoting Laurent Jouanneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Wil Hadden wrote: > > Appologies if this message is duplicated. > > > > Thanks for the reply. > > > > My application is a standalone program , not a > > browser. I presume then I could > > not use greasemonkey? > > > > Also I want to let the user change a lot more than the > > look and feel, I want > > them to be able to rewrite the functionality of the > > gui. For example using a > > tree instead of a list. > > ok, i thought that you talked about a web app. > > Well, as he can do with firefox, the user can create an extension that > can change everything in the gui : look'n feel, widgets, features, > behaviors etc... > It can be perform throw additional xul file, js files etc, and throw the > overlay system : http://xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/overlay.html and > http://xulplanet.com/tutorials/xultu/crosspov.html > An overlay is an xml file that contains new elements which were added to > a gui, or modification of some existing element. > > The only thing that you should do, is to provide a gui (a dialog box) to > install easily the extensions, like Firefox provide. I think you could > find this dialog box in the toolkit of gecko, used by your application. > > --- > Laurent Jouanneau > http://ljouanneau.com > http://www.xulfr.org, technologies XUL/Mozilla > http://openweb.eu.org, pour les standards du web > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > xul-talk mailing list > xul-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk > ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ xul-talk mailing list xul-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-talk
