[Wmlbrowser] wbmp images and wmlbrowser

[Stegozor]

Hi Matthew, hi everyone,

I live a boring life. No girlfriend, no money, an empty 	
refrigerator and worse, nothing on TV: so I've searched a little bit to 
know more about wmlbrowser and wbmp images. It seems that because it 
uses XPCOM and C++, the current code is nearly impossible to use. It has 
to be compiled with the same compiler and on the same platform than 
those that were used to compile SeaMonkey and Firefox. Worse, different 
binaries would be needed for Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux, etc.

Therefore, JavaScript seems another interesting way to consider to me. 
Although it's not at all the same thing than wbmp, there is an example 
that tends to show that JavaScript can handle such a task with 
acceptable performance: X-Face images on USENET and mail messages. 
X-Faces are monochrome (no colours, no grey scales) bitmap images of 
48*48 pixels. As an example, I've added one to this mail. The Mnenhy 
extension displays them, so you might want to install it to see how it 
works (choose extended normal view using the little widget on the 
headers pane; extension's homepage is http://mnenhy.mozdev.org). You'll 
notice (if you really focus :) a very little delay compared to a 
"normal" message.

More information about X-Face images and the source code that decodes 
them is available here: 
http://www.mozdev.org/source/browse/~checkout~/mnenhy/src/bin/chrome/mnenhy/content/mnenhy/headers/mnenhy-headers-xface.js?rev=1.3&content-type=text/plain
(It's taken from Mozilla Bug 20417 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20417)

I just hope that this will provide some clue for wbmp images using 
JavaScript. Is this idea worth considering it?