The Gecko
Gecko allows third party developers to use the same technology as found in Mozilla. That means you can embed a web browser inside a third-party application, open channels and streams through the network backend, walk through the DOM and so on. You can even construct whole new applications using chrome.
Haven't looked in to this yet but I'm bringing up just from a looks good for development standpoint. With the ease of use in implementing a bundled server (e.g. Resin, tomcat) and the ability to then implement a standard and stable browser into your application, the ease of building an application is quite astounding. Granted you have to be developing for the right environment, I wouldn't throw a Java server (even resin) with a hacked into place version of Firefox on to just any computer for just any user. But it could be done with fast dev time (providing the Gecko implementation doesn't require a thorough understanding of binary calc algorithm matrices).
The best point in this is package-ability, you can ditch the set-up of this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this to get to access this software through this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this. You can give them the whole kit and kaboodle - pro.
posted by Kombucha @ 11/25/2006 02:37:00 PM
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