[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:desimn at rpi.edu]
> Sent: 05 February 2004 07:12
> To: ros-general at 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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