Re: [eclipse-dev] Coordination of efforts

[David M Williams <david_williams@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dejan, even though you restricted your
question to the Eclipse platform team ... I'll answer anyway :)

Sounds like an opportunity to consider
moving the WTP webbrowser to a lower level ... I think it has exactly what
you need. 

The code is in. 

/home/webtools
wst/components/internet/plugins/org.eclipse.wst.internet.webbrowser

As you say, no sense duplicating code
or effort. 

Tim is "component owner" and
could answer any specific questions. 

David

Dejan Glozic <dejan@xxxxxxxxxx>
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12/09/2004 12:47 PM

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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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