Google Gears and Amiga Browsers

[ferrellsl]

Google Gears allows you to use Google Apps even when you're offline if you have a browser that supports the Google Gears plug-in.  If one of the various Amiga browsers out there supported this plug-in, it would give the Amiga a much needed set of tools such as a spreadsheet, wordprocessor, etc.....an entire office suite that is compatible with the commercial suites out there such as MS Office.

Does anyone know if the current Amiga browsers out there will ever support plug-ins that are used by FireFox, IE, etc?

[koaftder]

not likely

[ferrellsl]

That stinks.

[asymetrix]

To make FireFox plugins / addons requires :

Document Object Model Core
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#i-Document

Node Interface
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Node

XUL - XML User Interface Language
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/XUL

Javascript

http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/

If we had these as libraries, all new software could in theory be pluginable, Not just FireFox, ALL new
Amiga programs could have plugin capability.

Firefox addon file formats (RDF,JS,JAR)
http://filext.com/file-extension/RDF

A FireFox Plugin for addon backups use

XPI file format (basically a zip file with installer)
http://filext.com/file-extension/XPI

JSON - JavaScript Object Notation
http://www.xul.fr/ajax-javascript-json.html

Java - Jar format
http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/javaprogramming/JAR/