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Internet Explorer Client Side behaviours - the magic of HTC

Reading this post from Stephen Sharrock reminded me about something I often overlook, the phenomenally powerful DHTML behaviours which IE supports using HTC files. The WebService behaviour for instance lets you pull information into your client from aribtrary web services, even without using HTCs, tools like xLoadTree provide the ability to load data straight into the client without forcing a postback.
Before anyone comments, I know these are IE only - to be honest I don't care, when only 3% of users use anything other than IE, it seems a shame to ignore the functional improvements these kind of tools provide.
Now, Mozilla does support it's own version using XBL and XUL - hopefully some genius will work out a way for mozilla to support full HTC as well...

Print | posted on Sunday, November 23, 2003 11:22 PM | Filed Under [ Links Random ]

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# re: Internet Explorer Client Side behaviours - the magic of HTC

I think I've solved your problem! I've successfully developed a Mozilla wrapper for Microsoft's HTC files. It is encapsulated in a single XBL binding, so is exremely portable. The binding is small (4k) and contains compressed JavaScript code which loads the behavior and applies the interface. The interfaces of some objects have been extended to allow further cross-browser compatibility.

I've only just finished this development. So you are the first to here about it (apart from a few bored friends). I would be delighted if you would take a look and feed back some comments.

For a full working demo (with no browser sniffing), go here:

http://dean.edwards.name/my/examples/moz-behaviors/">http://dean.edwards.name/my/examples/moz-behaviors/">http://dean.edwards.name/my/examples/moz-behaviors/">http://dean.edwards.name/my/examples/moz-behaviors/

there is some (scant) documentation here:

http://dean.edwards.name/my/

Dean Edwards
1/14/2004 12:38 PM | Dean Edwards
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# re: Internet Explorer Client Side behaviours - the magic of HTC

I think I've solved your problem! I've
successfully developed a Mozilla wrapper for
Microsoft's HTC files. It is encapsulated in a
single XBL binding, so is exremely portable.
The binding is small (4k) and contains
compressed JavaScript code which loads the
behavior and applies the interface. The
interfaces of some objects have been extended
to allow further cross-browser compatibility.

I've only just finished this development. So
you are the first to here about it (apart from
a few bored friends). I would be delighted if
you would take a look and feed back some
comments.


For a full working demo (with no browser sniffing), go here:


http://dean.edwards.name/my/examples/moz-behaviors/">http://dean.edwards.name/my/examples/moz-behaviors/">http://dean.edwards.name/my/examples/moz-behaviors/">http://dean.edwards.name/my/examples/moz-behaviors/


there is some (scant) documentation here:


http://dean.edwards.name/my/


Dean Edwards
1/14/2004 12:39 PM | Dean Edwards
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# re: Internet Explorer Client Side behaviours - the magic of HTC

If you are interested on XUL with Internet Explorer : http://xulplanet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1038
9/11/2004 7:59 PM | Jean-Yves CRONIER
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