Re: [ros-general] Browsers

[Tom Lee Mullins]

Robert Köpferl wrote:

>   It would replace the GUIDs for IE. So they would
> reference an IE-dll 
>  rather than the mozilla-dll.
>  This would be no problem since mozilla-activeX still provides it's own 
>  GUID. It's just the method to have a default OSS browserplugin. And to 
>  serve all the people who don't want security holes included.
>
>  Colin Burn schrieb:
>
> >   What would happen if you installed IE on
> > ReactOS?
> >
> >  Does the licence allow this?
> >
> >  Whilst I'm thinking about it... What would happen if a user went to the
> >  windows update site?
> >
> >  -----Original Message-----
> >  From: Nate DeSimone [mailto:[e-mail]]
> >  Sent: 05 February 2004 07:12
> >  To: ros-general(a)reactos.com
> >  Subject: Re: [ros-general] Browsers
> >
> >
> >  I also agree with this,
> >
> >      We should take Firebird (since its only the browser (not mail, 
> >  IRC, composer, etc.) and its faster than IE) and add in the ActiveX 
> >  control plug in (which you can get at: 
> >  http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm) and also make a COM 
> >  wrapper for the Gecko rendering engine, between those two we should 
> >  have a full replacement to IE for the OS.  I think that there was 
> >  some Netscape employees working on making a COM wrapper for Mozilla, 
> >  but I can't remember the website, and development seemed to be pretty 
> >  inactive, but its better than starting from scratch.
> >
> >
> >
> >  David Dunn wrote:
> >
> >
> > >   I went through the forum and heard a lot of
> > > things about which 
> > >  browser (mostly mozilla) should be used as the default for ROS.
> > >
> > >  Just my idea, but I think that we should use a modified version of 
> > >  the Mozilla ActiveX control instead with a dummy browser placed on 
> > >  top.  There are 3 reasons why I think that this (even though it may 
> > >  be more difficult) is probably the best choice in the long run.
> > >
> > >  -Programs that require IE will instead be redirected to use 
> > >  Mozilla's rendering engine instead
> > >  -The dummy browser could store it's bookmarks in a similar manner to 
> > >  the way IE does adding to the startbutton/bookmarks compatibility
> > >  -Still promotes OSS
> > >
> > >  Firebird and Mozilla are great and all, but if there isn't 
> > >  compatability with the myriads of programs that want to call IE for 
> > >  some reason or another ROS will be slower to be adopted
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Since Mozilla is open sourced, one could port it with any changes desired.

TomLeeM

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