On January 16, 2004 01:06 am, Mike McCormack wrote:
Since some people have been complaining that MSHTML is a useless distraction in it's current form (there's some element of truth in that), here's a small patch to redirect calls to Mozilla's Active X control. You need to add a "mshtml"="builtin,native" override in the config file and download and install the control before this patch can try to use it:
Very nice Mike! I guess this requires a Win32 build of Mozilla, no? Anyway, if the patch goes in, it would be nice if our good packagers can come up with a binary package (say, wine-mozilla?) that just installs alongside with the wine package and provides this capability.
Le ven 16/01/2004 à 01:23, Dimitrie O. Paun a écrit :
On January 16, 2004 01:06 am, Mike McCormack wrote:
Since some people have been complaining that MSHTML is a useless distraction in it's current form (there's some element of truth in that), here's a small patch to redirect calls to Mozilla's Active X control. You need to add a "mshtml"="builtin,native" override in the config file and download and install the control before this patch can try to use it:
Very nice Mike! I guess this requires a Win32 build of Mozilla, no? Anyway, if the patch goes in, it would be nice if our good packagers can come up with a binary package (say, wine-mozilla?) that just installs alongside with the wine package and provides this capability.
The ActiveX control listed at the listed address is self-contained (but still 5MB in size), so it's probably not much work to package it as well.
Don't know when I could try something about it though, since Mozilla 1.6 has just been released and I'm involved with the French translation. And Alexandre still hasn't committed it yet :P
Vincent
On January 16, 2004 01:37 am, Vincent Béron wrote:
The ActiveX control listed at the listed address is self-contained (but still 5MB in size), so it's probably not much work to package it as well.
Perfect! I'm fairly excited about this stuff.
BTW Mike, did you try to see if HTML Helps works with the Mozilla control? We had a task to add CHM support to WinHelp, but first we needed an implementation for IWebBrowser. People were arguing that Mozilla is not that IE compatible, and that using it for the IWebBrowser component will not work for a lot of cases, but I still think this is the way forward. Even if we chose in the future to have another IWebBrowser implementation based on khtml, this will nicely fill in the gap in the meanwhile, without any maintenance problems for us.
Hi Dmitry,
I didn't really have much time to do testing with it... tried to use it in place of IE6 and IE4's mshtml, but it didn't work.
Using Mozilla to implement IWebBrowser seems to be the Right Way for me, as the Mozilla project is already trying to do that themselves... it's a common goal that we can work together on!
It would be pretty cool if we could compile Mozilla as a winelib app, or figure out how to do get debugging info out of the control so we could see what needs to be fixed for it to work.
I'm pretty interested to work on this too, but unfortunately there's other "real work" that I need to get done at the moment.
Mike
Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
Perfect! I'm fairly excited about this stuff.
BTW Mike, did you try to see if HTML Helps works with the Mozilla control? We had a task to add CHM support to WinHelp, but first we needed an implementation for IWebBrowser. People were arguing that Mozilla is not that IE compatible, and that using it for the IWebBrowser component will not work for a lot of cases, but I still think this is the way forward. Even if we chose in the future to have another IWebBrowser implementation based on khtml, this will nicely fill in the gap in the meanwhile, without any maintenance problems for us.
Hiya Mike, --- Mike McCormack mike@codeweavers.com wrote:
Using Mozilla to implement IWebBrowser seems to be the Right Way for me, as the Mozilla project is already trying to do that themselves... it's a common goal that we can work together on!
Yes. We with ReactOS need this also. All three projects have a common goal here.
It would be pretty cool if we could compile Mozilla as a winelib app, or figure out how to do get debugging info out of the control so we could see what needs to be fixed for it to work.
Most of the hard part should be done for this if WineGCC is ready. You can now build mozilla on Mingw as long as you disable MAPI and ActiveX. Of course ActiveX will need to be fixed to allow the control to be embedded.
I'm pretty interested to work on this too, but unfortunately there's other "real work" that I need to get done at the moment.
Such is life. The ReactOS team will try to help on this soon. We have Mozilla almost loading and are still stalled on TCP support atm. Once we have this inplace we will be working with you guys on this.
Thanks Steven
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