Re: [ros-general] ReactOS 0.3.0 TODO

[James E. LaBarre]

Tom Lee Mullins wrote:
>   James E. LaBarre wrote:
> >   Mark IJbema wrote:
> > >   (msie would be nice for 0.3.1 btw >:) ) 
> >  For that matter, though, I'd rather see code which would *fool* those
> >  brain-dead apps that have MSIE requirements into thinking your
> >  Gecko-based browser is actually MSIE.  Someday when I have spare time
> >  I'm going to see if I can find what apps like TurboLister, Norton
> >  Utilities, etc. are looking for, and see if I can fake them out.
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>  There is a browser - Opera - at http://www.opera.com - where one can set
>  it where it shows itself as 'IE' (or whatever browser you want it seen as).
>   
Not quite the same thing.  What Opera is reporting is a version to a
*website*.  What I'm talking about is convincing local applications that
  you have a particular version of Internyet Exploder installed.
Apparently these apps rely upon some part of MSHTML, or perhaps the
Internet Settings included with MSIE.