[ros-general] Re: Browsers

[Ian McLean]

I have noticed that NCSA Mosiac itself is available for download.  I have
not tried it myself, I wonder whether anyone has, and how it rates ?

Rgs
Ian.

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ros-general-bounces at reactos.com]On Behalf Of Martin Fuchs
> Sent: Friday, 6 February 2004 9:23 am
> To: ros-general at reactos.com
> Subject: [ros-general] Re: Browsers
>
>
> >  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.
>
> I installed Firebird this week and have to admit I also like it.
> But why do you think, it's faster then Internet Explorer?
> It feels a bit more sluggish for example when resizing the windows.
> But not really much, it's acceptable.
> What I really like is it's popup window blocker.  :)
>
> Then I downloaded it's source code and unpacked it onto my drive...
> This are 184 MB of source code in numerous subfolders!
> Is this really anything needed just to display HTML and a few other
> protocolls? I did not try to compile it - reading the Howto has been
> quite disgusting. You need cygwin, perl, and a few other
> special tools.
>
> I think we should try to install it as binary Active-X control without
> interating any source code into the ROS tree. (if that's possible)
>
> Regards,
>
>    Martin
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