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[Barry Carr]

Hi Rick, Arron

There is a calendar plugin for the current version on Thunderbird - I can't remember what its called 
though. IIRC it is a Mozilla project which should make it a bit easier to find and install. HTH

Cheers
Barry

Rick Moynihan wrote:
> On 26/02/2008, christopher wyllie <cgwyllie at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> What is the "chrome thingy"? :)
> 
> I'm no XUL/Chrome/Mozilla expert, but because of certain abstractions
> built into Mozilla you can render the Chrome (which is pretty much a
> containing UI panel plus scrollbars, menus etc...) by visiting it's
> URL.  Try visiting the following URL in firefox, to render firefox
> inside firefox:
> 
> chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
> 
> I'm not particularly well informed on the issue Arron raised, and have
> never built anything on top of Mozilla directly other than via
> Greasemonkey; but I suspect that what Arron's after isn't really
> possible without serious hacking.  My reasoning:
> 
> Chatzilla is a plugin running under firefox's Gecko Runtime, where as
> Sunbird isn't a plugin but a separate application making use of it's
> own Gecko Runtime.
> 
> I suspect you could get someway there by hacking around the Chrome
> registry and resolving paths to the relevant javascript, XUL and
> perhaps even linking any native Sunbird code with XPCOM.
> 
> Perhaps this sort of thing will become increasingly more possible
> though with projects like XULRunner:
> 
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XULRunner
> 
> and Prism:
> 
> http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/10/prism/
> 
> striving to turn Mozilla into a better RIA (Rich Internet Application)
> platform.
> 
> Also, Thunderbird 3 under (now under Mozilla Messaging) will be
> integrating Calendaring presumably from Sunbird... When this happens
> presumably Seamonkey (formerly the Mozilla Suite) will do the same
> (allowing precisely what you want).
> 
> Still, this is just speculation on my part; so it might be as 'simple'
> as merging the differences between both application installs (in
> practice though I'd be surprised if this could be described simple).
> 
> --
> Rick Moynihan
> rick.moynihan at gmail.com
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