February 10, 2004

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yay plugins

I've finally written up some
documentation
on using XEmbed to build Mozilla plugins. In
the past we've basically been limited to using Xt widgets to build
plugins. Now, we can use a boring old GtkPlug to do so. In
theory this should also make it possible to build out of process
plugins, since XEmbed makes that a lot easier.

Anyway, this is just a start, but a good one. Maybe I'll stop
getting all that email that includes the phrase “I've been
reparenting my window into Mozilla and it's not working very
well…”

Few things in the world can screw up a unix system like
accidentally executing and then responding positively to this
prompt:

rm: remove `/dev/null'? y