[ros-general] (no subject)

[David Dunn]

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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.

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No, no, I don't think you get what I'm suggesting.  Both Mozilla and 
Firebird have the same engine under the hood.  The speed difference is 
mostly because seamonkey loads more than just the browser. The ActiveX 
control is simply a way to access the browser, all of those other 
features are actually add-ons that don't need to be installed.

As for the dummy-browser, it's actually quite simple to do.  I would if 
I better understood ActiveX, but the "official" website for the control 
has a variety of demos to work from.  The dummy-browser would be a 
little bit more useful than just plain Firebird, since we could 
integrate bookmarking features with ros explorer much in the same way 
microsoft does with IE.

If modified properly, the control could replace IE completely.  It 
wouldn't be needed for anything anymore.