Re: GNOME & KOM/OP

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> OLE is all about letting *fat* applications tickle the innards of
> each other to gain some integration.

You are confused. 

The fact that OLE2 has been successfully used in big applications does
not mean that it does not allow to do what you just described OpenDoc
does.  With OLE2 you can do exactly what you described in your mail.

> One last thing.  The W3C just released Draft 1.0 of the 'DOM', a
> "standard" document model for representing HTML/XML as objects.  It
> may be good to look at this...it seems generic, there's IDL available
> and they are doing it with CORBA in mind.  

Very interesting, can you give us a pointer to this?  

Daniel Viellard is working with us to address some of those concerns. 


Miguel.