[ros-general] Browsers

[Tom Lee Mullins]

Robert Köpferl wrote:

> 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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Since Mozilla is open sourced, one could port it with any changes desired.

TomLeeM

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