Re: [ros-general] Browsers

[Jeff Smith]

I think they are talking about distributing this "mozilla" browser with
ReactOS,  and if that's the case, I don't think we can legally do that with
IE... I haven't read the licence, so I don't know if we can install it on
ReactOS or not...

as for Windows update, the site would reject ReactOS, because #1 the OS
version isn't anyting that MS supposerts, and I'm suer the browser will have
a simliar problem... but I think it would be cool if we could have out own
ReactOS update site, to keep the users up to date...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Burn" <Colin.Burn(a)pigroup.co.uk>
To: <ros-general(a)reactos.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:44 AM
Subject: RE: [ros-general] Browsers


>   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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