On Thursday 01 November 2007 10:47:36 am Jacek Caban wrote:
Hi Chris,
This patch is already committed, but, I'm afraid, it's wrong. Setting these registries has nothing to do with installing Gecko. Setting them in Gecko installer will only make supporting it harder. We don't want to tell user to "run iexplore about:blank" to get an app working.
Actually, Alexendre agreed to the patch *because* it sets the version when Gecko is installed. This allows people to still install native IE if they wish, and allows apps that need native IE to be able to have it, by installing IE before Gecko. Alexendre wasn't willing to have the version always set because some apps may need native IE, and because some people may want native IE.
However, setting the version when installing Gecko allows apps that need to detect IE by its version, to be able to do so.