6 Feb
2004
6 Feb
'04
12:32 a.m.
I have noticed that NCSA Mosiac itself is available for download. I have
not tried it myself, I wonder whether anyone has, and how it rates ?
Rgs
Ian.
-----Original Message-----
From: ros-general-bounces(a)reactos.com
[mailto:ros-general-bounces@reactos.com]On Behalf Of Martin Fuchs
Sent: Friday, 6 February 2004 9:23 am
To: ros-general(a)reactos.com
Subject: [ros-general] Re: Browsers
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.
I installed Firebird this week and have to admit I also like it.
But why do you think, it's faster then Internet Explorer?
It feels a bit more sluggish for example when resizing the windows.
But not really much, it's acceptable.
What I really like is it's popup window blocker. :)
Then I downloaded it's source code and unpacked it onto my drive...
This are 184 MB of source code in numerous subfolders!
Is this really anything needed just to display HTML and a few other
protocolls? I did not try to compile it - reading the Howto has been
quite disgusting. You need cygwin, perl, and a few other
special tools.
I think we should try to install it as binary Active-X control without
interating any source code into the ROS tree. (if that's possible)
Regards,
Martin
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