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RE: [eclipse-dev] Coordination of efforts

If this was done it would satisfy this request:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=73001
   Provide a standard web browser read-only editor

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=69647
   [Workbench] Need showURL API 

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=76356

> -----Original Message-----
> From: eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Jean-Michel Lemieux
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:19 PM
> To: eclipse-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [eclipse-dev] Coordination of efforts
> 
> We came across this when creating the bugzilla plug-in. It 
> has an editor 
> that displays an embedded SWT Browser widget. A common 
> browser with the 
> features you mentioned would be useful. This would essentialy 
> make Eclipse 
> a tabbed web browser :) 
> 
> We could add the following to your list:
> 
> - show connection progress
> - optional showing of the URL?
> - support cancellation
> - allow contributing SWT Browser listeners (link events...)
> - shouldn't assume that widget will be used in an editor 
> (could be in a 
> view or other)
> 
> Cheers,
> Jean-Michel
> 
> 
> 
> Dejan Glozic/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA 
> Sent by: eclipse-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 12/09/2004 12:47 PM
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> Subject
> [eclipse-dev] Coordination of efforts
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> A question for the Eclipse platform team:
> 
> The User Assistance team will need to create an embedded web 
> browser for
> the benefit of showing help documents 'in place' (as part of 
> an effort to
> bring user assistance closer to where the user is). 
> Essentially all we 
> want
> is to show an arbitrary URL. I am sure there are other 
> Eclipse teams that
> would benefit from the same functionality. Are there plans to provide
> standard 'show this URL' capability somewhere in the 
> workbench so that we
> don't need to do this?
> 
> A rough list of expected behavior:
> 
> - A standard action set of 'Back/Next/Stop/Refresh' actions
> - A way to configure the feature to reuse the same browser 
> (if open) or
> create a new instance for each document
> - A way to catch the browser widget exception and open the external
> (standalone) browser if the internal fails
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dejan Glozic, Ph.D.
> Manager, Eclipse Development 1A
> D1/R0Q/8200/MKM
> IBM Canada Ltd.
> Tel. 905 413-2745  T/L 969-2745
> Fax. 905 413-4850
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