Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: HTML support in Mac OS?

Author:John Brewer
Posted:5/8/1999; 1:10:28 PM
Topic:HTML support in Mac OS?
Msg #:5851 (In response to 5838)
Prev/Next:5850 / 5852

The problem here is that Apple already tried to develop an embedding architecture (OpenDoc), and it crashed and burned. I don't think anyone at Apple is too eager to suggest trying to do this again. Even if they did, I can't image developers trusting Apple not to screw them on this again.

Now, a lot of apps already support embedding QuickTime. And QuickTime supports a lot of MIME types. What if Apple just added text/html as a supported MIME type to QuickTime? It'd probably work for a viewer. The question is, could you muck about with JavaScript and the like or not.




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