RFE (for Unix/X11R6): A flag in the ~/.mailcap file which tells the browser to "embed" the helper application's window inside mozillas window like "web enabled X" does. http://www.broadway-info.com/xdemos/xeyes.html is a good demo...

The demo required the application/x-rx plugin which can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/R6.4/plug-ins/ I'd like to see the same functionality within Mozilla for "helper" applications. WARNING: Not all X apps are written so clean that they like the xrx-plugin. xeyes, xterm, dtterm and xclock are working, but dtcalc, sdtprocess and netscape 4.x crashes due some NULL-pointer issues, therefore I suggest to make this an optional "flag" which should be enabled for some selected apps...

Why M20 ? ;-( This would be a cool feature for the new Mozilla !! This feature can be implemented using the APPGROUP extension. I can send example code on demand...

OK, I have a working prototype which does the following: It is able to embed another application within a Xt widget using the APPGROUP X server extension. The implementation is very simple: Create window and widget, create thread which forwards X traffic from a port (currently port 6020, e.g. DISPLAY=:20.0) to the widget, creates a magic cookie for that widget and then starts the application using ksh -c 'xauth add COOKIE; start_my_app; xauth remove COOKIE'. That's all. Any interest in this piece of code ?

Added APPGROUP demo/prototype. The prototype works on Solaris 2.7/MU4 without any problems. It still needs some cleanup because it is currently _VERY_ sloppy on error checking ;-( Comments ?

<tough_decision>Very sorry, but we've closed down acceptance of new non-life-or-death features, however cool, in the interest of getting a working browser out the door. Marking FUTURE.</tough_decision>

nominating

bug review: setting to PL2:P4

Based on my limited understanding of what this is about, I'm guessing this is WONTFIX.