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List:       wine-devel
Subject:    Re: [Tools/Wine.inf] Set Internet Explorer version
From:       Robert Shearman <rob () codeweavers ! com>
Date:       2006-06-30 10:31:19
Message-ID: 44A4FD77.6050507 () codeweavers ! com
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Vitaliy Margolen wrote:

>Thursday, June 29, 2006, 6:28:11 PM, Olaf Leidinger wrote:
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>>On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 10:56:12 -0700
>>"James Hawkins" <truiken@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>On 6/28/06, Maarten Lankhorst <M.B.Lankhorst@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>Should we require that people install Internet Explorer or should we put
>>>>in patches that increase application compatibility with vanilla wine?
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>>>I don't know why we would require people to install IE, when we have a
>>>replacement for it already.
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>>Web designers - to see what their pages look like in IE. But they could also install IE 7.
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>As been mentioned before this argument is invalid. Native IE does not and will
>not behave like on real windows. Thus rendering any such tests invalid.
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IE running in Wine still allows me to view sites that don't display 
properly in Firefox, so it definitely has a use.

-- 
Rob Shearman



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