Re: Making a Application (.NET/C#) truely platform independant
From: Champika Nirosh (cnirosh_at_textcentric.lk)
Date: 02/06/04
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Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 14:22:39 +0600
Highly appreciate your interest on helping me.. we will see how it goes, the
info I gathered from here is truely helpful
Nirosh.
"Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP]" <onyxkirx@--NOSPAM--comcast.net> wrote in
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>
> "Champika Nirosh" <cnirosh@textcentric.lk> wrote in message
> news:e%23hkH$g6DHA.712@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > Thanks for the reply Daniel
> >
> > What we have right now is a Winform application that purely uses
Microsoft
> > Web Browser COM for content browsing and many other operations. The
> Winform
> > application is a thin client and it is commnicating with a Web service
> > interface (that is a content repository) to download and view the
content.
> > They are SCORM compliant (if you don't know just ignore this it is a
> > standard). So I don't mind the effort we are ready, but the issue is the
> > correct path and the potential problem we may face of getting our
> > application run on MAC and Unix. I even don't mind going for Mozilla. We
> do
> > lots of marking on the content like we highlight certain part of the
> content
> > and we add annotations so on plus we drag drop content to create short
> notes
> > there we use html dom do get access to the html document so if mozilla
can
> > support these we are OK. But if there is any other way which we can get
> the
> > Ms Browser COM work in other plat form we will choose that root. if you
> know
> > can you please comment on the WINE and it usage here.
> >
> Unfortunatly I know very little about WINE, I would say simply test it and
> see what happens.
>
> Getting the MS Browser control to work off platform is likely going to be
> hard, if possible. Examining Mozilla for the features you need would be my
> first suggestion(if they don't have waht you want...khtml or a few of the
> other OSS ones may). However, you may want to research how to interface
with
> the Mac version of IE, its probably not the most popular browser on the
> platform but it does still exist(although I don't know its state of
> maintainence).
>
> Currently I don't know of a standalone managed code html renderer. Its
> something I want to see, something I've even considered trying, but time
and
> a low level dislike of html have kept me from doing so, ;).
>
> Sorry I can't offer much advice, I hope this helps in some way.
> > Nirosh.
> >
> > "Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP]" <onyxkirx@--NOSPAM--comcast.net> wrote in
> > message news:O78WtlZ6DHA.2300@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > You won't. Browsers and other interop are often the biggest platform
> > > compatibility issues you'll have. While COM is not soley tied to
> windows,
> > > most, if not all other systems do not run COM normally(there are COM
> > > implementations for unix, probably macs as well). As a result you will
> > have
> > > alot of work to get things going.
> > > What are you attempting to do? If you just want to host the browser
> > locally,
> > > you could look into embedding mozilla or another OSS browser(assuming
> > > licensing will suit you). If you need automation you will hav eto
invest
> > in
> > > platform specific modules(which can be tricky, mono annoyingly claims
to
> > be
> > > windows XP) which performs the work for you. How are you interfacing
> with
> > > say Mozilla now? Or are you totally dependent on IE?
> > > "Champika Nirosh" <cnirosh@textcentric.lk> wrote in message
> > > news:eAy4HsY6DHA.2404@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > > Thanks for the reply any thought on how we can get the Browser COM
> work
> > in
> > > > MAC?
> > > >
> > > > <.> wrote in message news:#Jtz6SY6DHA.1368@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > > > > COM is not platform independant, COM is a Microsoft technology.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anything under System.* namespaces SHOULD be platform neutral .
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > "Champika Nirosh" <cnirosh@textcentric.lk> wrote in message
> > > > > news:#5M4qqU6DHA.3308@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > > > > Hi All,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > We have a windows from application written in C#, there we have
> used
> > > > > Browser
> > > > > > COM and other basic libraries present in standard .NET/C# SDK.
So
> > the
> > > > next
> > > > > > part is to make this appliaction available to Unix and Mac
> platform.
> > I
> > > > > have
> > > > > > couple of questions here
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1. What are the possibilities we have of doing some thing like
> this?
> > > > > > 2. What are the technical chalenges we will face of doing this?
> > > > > > 3. What are the direct indirect solution we have to achive our
> goal?
> > > > > > 4. What short of support we can get from MONO, ROTOR, and WINE?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Please shade some light on these ........ I really appreciate
it..
> > > > > > Add what ever comment you have becos we deadly need lots of
ideas.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > Nirosh.
> > > > > >
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