[OSM-talk] JOSM WMS plugin, Y!, and firefox 3

[Tom Hughes]

In message <g0stco$krr$1 at ger.gmane.org>
          Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net> wrote:

> I emailed Robert O'Callahan, one of the Mozilla Gecko developers.
> 
> I asked:
> 
>  > Is there any other way of doing what they want to do with Firefox 3?
> 
> And he replied:
> 
>  > Yes. One way would be to write a Firefox extension or a custom
>  > XULRunner app and use canvas.drawWindow.
> 
> So the good news is that you don't need a debug build :-)
> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Drawing_Graphics_with_Canvas#Additional_Features

Cool.

> A custom XULRunner app is probably a bit heavyweight for what we want. I
> would suggest that the YWMS team look into creating a lightweight
> Firefox extension which uses some form of IPC to exchange data with the
> running JOSM.

So what we need is a firefox expert...

I guess the alternative is a java native interface that invokes Gecko
directly or something?

Tom

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