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[Barry Carr]

Barry Carr wrote:
> 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

It called Lightning

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/

> 
> 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
>> http://sourcesmouth.co.uk/blog/
>>
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