After a long and blundering search, I found precisely what I was looking for :D
I have been hunting for how to create a web plugin. I posted a few times on these forums about it with no response, so I assume that few people are really aware of how to do it. I checked Wikipedia, and it actually gave me results... unlike Google. (A new media revolution coming around the bend, perhaps?)
Thus: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/plugins/
NPAPI is what used to be a pretty much standard API for developing web plugins. Sadly, Microsoft decided to break the wondrous web plugins by removing them from Internet Explorer and replacing them with ActiveX controls. Pure ingenuity, as always...
There is, thankfully, a way to run a proper NPAPI plugin within ActiveX :)
I'm going to play with this a bit more later. So far, I have managed to compile a FireFox plugin... it is spectacularly easy to get a simple application going. (Which I didn't expect, due to all the literature attached to it).
I have been hunting for how to create a web plugin. I posted a few times on these forums about it with no response, so I assume that few people are really aware of how to do it. I checked Wikipedia, and it actually gave me results... unlike Google. (A new media revolution coming around the bend, perhaps?)
Thus: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/plugins/
NPAPI is what used to be a pretty much standard API for developing web plugins. Sadly, Microsoft decided to break the wondrous web plugins by removing them from Internet Explorer and replacing them with ActiveX controls. Pure ingenuity, as always...
There is, thankfully, a way to run a proper NPAPI plugin within ActiveX :)
I'm going to play with this a bit more later. So far, I have managed to compile a FireFox plugin... it is spectacularly easy to get a simple application going. (Which I didn't expect, due to all the literature attached to it).