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Re: Why MSIE sucks for the HTML writer
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:47:40 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general 5379, Asher Kobin writes:
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> > Are you ignorant? Do you understant competition? What would happen If every
> > car was the same?
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> Probably the same thing that would happen if MSIE had a 100% market share.
But that's a good thing :)
The great thing about IE is that it can be repurposed. Anyone can slap on
their own UI (AOL, webTV, NeoPlanet) and decide what features to implement or
not to implemnt. If you understand COM and how IE is comonentized, you can
write your own browser using IE's rendering engine.
We're making the engine a system service. Analogous to something as simple as
an exit box or a button. All programs that run under windows can use this
service to whatever means neccessary.
--
Asher
If you run Windows 2000 you'll be very suprised in ways IE was used. If you
have Visual C++, use the tool Spy++ and poke around. Any window with the
window class "Internet Explorer_Server" is IE's engine (AKA Trident or MSHTML).
For example, the new Add/Remove Programs dialog. Of course its dog slow
compared to Win32 UI, but we're working on that one :)
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| (...) Umm, huh? I thought you were implying that competition was good because it inspired better growth. Is what you really mean to say "We should be allowed to compete with other browsers, but once we're winning, the other guys should just give in (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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