Extending Safari
Extending Safari
- Subject: Extending Safari
- From: Greg Langmead <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 08:57:41 -0800
Does anyone know Apple's plans for supporting KPart extensions, or some
other integration technology, in Safari?
I'm interested in writing a sort of plugin for Safari, but the level of
integration I need is higher than a Netscape-style plugin. In
particular, I need to be able to:
- render certain XHTML nodes only, alternatively requiring nodes I
handle to be put in some XML namespace (this is as opposed to only
handling separate files, like images or movies)
- specify my size, rather than using the in-HTML size that a plugin uses
- query about my environment: the ambient font around my node, the font
size, and the baseline
Good examples of this sort of thing would be plugins that provide
nice-looking support for XHTML documents with MathML or SVG in them.
From the KHTML perspective, I think the best approach is through what
they call a KPart. I've pored over the KPart documentation on the KDE
site, and asked their dev list and it's possible that I can get what I
want with that mechanism. But from looking through the WebCore code,
it's not at all clear that KPart has been implemented as part of the
Safari project!
What I'm looking for is any clue to Apple's plans with regard to KPart
or other browser-extension technology, and barring that, what their
plans for SVG and/or MathML are. I'm hoping someone here, maybe
someone from Apple, can point me in the right direction.
Thanks!
Greg Langmead
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