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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
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Subject: Re: Announcing Kermit 95 1.1.12 for Windows 95, Windows NT, and OS/2
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In article <5o4j0f$ivo@mozo.cc.purdue.edu>,
Kyler Laird <laird@asphodel.ecn.purdue.edu> wrote:
: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz) writes:
: >: If I click a second URL, it spawns a second copy of a
: >: browser. Would it be optional to invoke the new page
: >: on the existing browser?
: >:
: >Not currently -- that's how we wanted to do it in the
: >first place, but that would require knowing the API for
: >every release of every browser on every platform,
:
: ...or simply getting users to write their own interfaces.
: All you need to do is write a simple program which either
: starts up a new browser with the given URL or directs the
: current browser to the given URL.
:
: Then just call that program instead of the browser. I
: did this for a hack of NN which I could trigger from
: XMosaic.
:
A "user exit"? That would be good if all of our users were
programmers and had programming tools at their disposal.
But it begs the larger question of "Kermit APIs" in general.
Like I said, we'll revisit the browser issue in future
releases. Yesterday, Tom Horsley suggested a "universal
API" for invoking a browser, but it would take a lot of
testing and verification to see how universal it really
was: Windows 95 original, "B", SR2; Windows NT 3.51 and 4.0
(on Intel, Alpha, and Power PC); OS/2 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 4.0.
Each of these in combination with every release of every
browser -- nothing is ever that easy.
As for "user exits", DDE, OCX, and so on -- that's another
question that's been on our list for some time. We can't
do everything at once.
- Frank