Re: [ros-general] Browsers

[Robert Köpferl]

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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