I've been working on a project lately that involves me reading a large amount of Internet Explorer resources. I've been primarily using Firefox for over a year now. My first motivator was the tab support, but the open code base and wide variety of extensions was the deal maker. As I peruse the MSDN pages, I'm amazed at how much is available. It really covers a lot of information. Unfortunately, it's not geared for .NET development. There's also a relatively high barrier to entry to write many of the extensions due to the COM interfaces. I don't have a COM background, so it intimidates me! It's probably not such a huge deal once you work with it, as with any language/platform, but with such a push toward .NET, it doesn't seem necessary to learn this. Have any of my readers written IE extensions? What was your experience? What would have made it easier?
posted @ Tuesday, December 12, 2006 9:30 AM