I've not seen support for this in IE.

However if you're planning to use so many open source pieces, why not use one more and make the whole thing browser-independent? If Mozilla doesn't have support for essentially running a local CGI, you could try to add it. Alternately you could build an interface with XUL. There are (dunno how ready for use, but the start is there) Perl bindings at http://plxpcom.mozdev.org/. That might let you do pretty much what you planned to do, with more power, in a more cross-platform way.

(Or it might not work so well. This is a stack of technologies that I've heard of, not worked with.)

In reply to Re: Browsers as stand-alone UI by tilly
in thread Browsers as stand-alone UI by dragonchild

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