[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 at pigroup.co.uk>
To: <ros-general at 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: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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