Re: Wine folks interested in a CHM spec?

[Vincent Béron]

Le mer 28/05/2003 à 16:30, Steven Edwards a écrit :
> > b) it'd be based on either khtml or mozilla. not starting a new
> > rendering engine.
>
> Mozilla is going to be the way to go if Demi can get the gecko to build and work as a WINElib app
> now that it can be built with Mingw. Once that is done we will know what needs to be fixed in WINE
> to support it as either a elf or PE binary. Plus it will save us on the ReactOS side some work
> when we go to do a explorer/browser clone. =)

The problem with that approach is that many CHM files rely on some
IE-only extensions and/or quirks. Gecko seems to be too much
standards-compliant to be very useful in this form, at least without
some heavy modifications to the rendering engine.

Vincent