Wine's Mozilla Control - Very old
Boaz Harrosh
wine at electrozaur.com
Tue Jun 13 11:35:57 CDT 2006
For any it might concern!
The Mozilla ActiveX Control recommended for download by Wine is based on
a pre FireFox 1.0 gecko engine and is missing support for many web
standards!
I was doing development in Windows and needed an Embedded browser. I
wanted to also support Mozilla engine and was Quickly downloading the
ActiveX from wine download page. (My installed FireFox does not supply
one). My work involved embedding the FCKEditor
(http://FCKEditor.sourceforge.net). So I installed and change the source
code to use the Mozilla GUID and oops FCKEditor does not work.
After some investigation I found that even though the Control's package
is from Q4/2005 the engine included is much older and belongs to Mozilla
1.6 or something. Since then the Mozilla package did not include a new
Control and Has eventually stopped been released. (Do to FireFox
replacing it).
The New (Mozilla 1.8) Control can only be found in the new SeaMonkey
1.0.x package, which is what I got. And with this control every thing
works grate. (Even better than IE). Now SeaMonkey
(http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey) is a very large package and
is not something a user would be Happy to be forced with. I did Package
a one time Installation of the new Control, stripping down from
SeaMonkey anything I could guess does not belong. But this is a one time
Job and I'm not sure is the right solution. Maybe we should contact the
Sea-Monkey maintainers and ask them to Also produce an "on the side"
extra package for our sake. I have not done that yet ... Any body in
contact with Mozilla.org?
Free Life
Boaz
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