[ros-general] ReactOS 0.3.0 TODO

[James E. LaBarre]

Tom Lee Mullins wrote:
> James E. LaBarre wrote:
> 
>> Mark IJbema wrote:
>>
>>> (msie would be nice for 0.3.1 btw >:) )
>>
>>
>>
>> For that matter, though, I'd rather see code which would *fool* those 
>> brain-dead apps that have MSIE requirements into thinking your 
>> Gecko-based browser is actually MSIE.  Someday when I have spare time 
>> I'm going to see if I can find what apps like TurboLister, Norton 
>> Utilities, etc. are looking for, and see if I can fake them out.
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> There is a browser - Opera - at http://www.opera.com - where one can set 
> it where it shows itself as 'IE' (or whatever browser you want it seen as).
> 

Not quite the same thing.  What Opera is reporting is a version to a 
*website*.  What I'm talking about is convincing local applications that 
  you have a particular version of Internyet Exploder installed. 
Apparently these apps rely upon some part of MSHTML, or perhaps the 
Internet Settings included with MSIE.