XUL in IE

From reading Adam Lock's Mozilla ActiveX Project page it appears that it should be already possible to have Internet Explorer run XUL applications. Has anyone tried that yet? I'll definitely look into this over the next few days. I just wonder whether applications will be able to gain security privileges comparable to the chrome environment (probably not). This would help selling XUL to companies wishing to continue their standardization on IE as sole client.

This entry was posted by Sascha Schumann on Tuesday, January 10. 2006 at 10:57. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own blog.

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  1. Markus says:
    #1 2006-01-15 10:58 (Reply)

    I don't see any information on that page talking about XUL. It's the homepage of the ActiveX plugin to run .. well, ActiveX plugins, like Windows Media Player, inside Firefox.

    What on that page makes the connection to XUL?

  2. Sascha Schumann says:
    #2 2006-01-15 11:19 (Reply)

    Hi Markus,

    Adam Lock's page contains three projects:

    (1) embedding the Gecko rendering engine in an ActiveX control
    (2) making ActiveX controls work inside of Mozilla
    (3) making Mozilla plugins work in ActiveX

    You are referring to the second one, while I'm talking about the first one.

    Displaying XUL using the ActiveX control definitely works. See this newsgroup posting for example.

    http://tinyurl.com/a4lgx

    The above posting is from the embedding newsgroup:

    http://groups.google.com/group/netscape.public.mozilla.embedding

    I've also learned that Adam Lock's work is part of the Mozilla CVS and thus the necessary mozctlx.dll can be found in the regular nightly Mozilla builds.

    http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/embedding/browser/activex/src/control/

    Note that the mozctlx.dll is only delivered as part of the Mozilla zip files. The Mozilla and Firefox installers don't contain the file.

  3. drive-by poster says:
    #3 2006-12-07 22:15 (Reply)

    Did anyone ever make headway on embedding a XUL motor in an ActiveX control for use in IE?

  4. Kev says:
    #4 2007-01-16 17:54 (Reply)

    Has anyone successfully run an XUL app on IE this way? A year later, sounds like it's time for an update. ;-)


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