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List:       mozilla-general
Subject:    Re: Background applets
From:       Edwin Li-Kai Liu <robin.hood () ibm ! net>
Date:       1998-03-10 16:46:03
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Corinne Dive-Reclus wrote:

> I am interested in 'background applets' ( which do not die when their
> page is no more longer current). This could be a good new feature. For
> example, to maintain a corba connection through HTML pages without
> opening a new window. We could access to these applets by
> navigator.applets[] instead of document.applet[]. A new option
> 'background' (like mayscript ) in the tag applet could be implemented.
> Have you some remarks or  ideas about it ?

Think of the through "live-wire" a background applet would be able to monitor
the client's activity and send it to somewhere else, which leads to a privacy
problem. Maybe before an applet is allowed to be long-life, a warning message
should popup saying that "This page contains Java(tm) applets that will stay
resident when you switch page, however this may cause privacy problems. Do you
want to a) keep them alive and continue, or b) kill them all?"

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