Internet Explorer 6 and Wine1-rc5

[Maarten Lankhorst]

Hello,

2008/6/19 Leslie Viljoen <leslieviljoen at gmail.com> schreef:
> On 6/19/08, Vitaliy Margolen <wine-devel at kievinfo.com> wrote:
>> First of all this is developer's mailing list not user's.
>
> Ah, I will look for the other list and sign up there too. I am a user
> but I hope to
> be a developer too when I start understanding more. I think Wine is the most
> important project

Sliced bread is still more important, but wine is a close second. :-)

We have some developer documentation on the website, and some in the
wiki. The stuff on the website is no longer maintained but should
still be useful, since it contains some info the wiki doesn't have. We
also gather on #winehackers at irc.freenode.net

>>  Leslie Viljoen wrote:
>>
>> > Hi people!
>> >
>> > I am a bit confused by the appdb entries for Internet Explorer 6
>> > (http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=469).
>> There's a bug
>> > linked in one of the posts that seems to indicated IE does not work
>> > and that's expected.
>> >
>> > Is IE6 supposed to work in Wine1 or is it a known not-working program?
>> >
>>  No it's not supposed to work in Wine. Wine has it's own IE replacement. And
>> all effort goes towards making that 100% drop in replacement in all cases.
>>
>>  If you still want to use native IE - use programs such as ies4linux to
>> install it _outside_ default WINEPREFIX. However don't bother reporting any
>> problems with IEs ran that way. As lots of Wine libraries being replaced
>> with natives. Such configurations are not supported.
>
> Can the appdb entry be cleared out and replaced with this info?
> Gecko does not seem to provide OLE embedding, as used by TopStyle
> (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=4609)
>
ie6 manual instructions are on http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=469

However it's quite involved, but if you really need internet explorer
6 it's possible to run. The manual method probably has a higher chance
of success then ies4linux, since we now have to rely on a lot less
libraries. However it is really unsupported.

Cheers,
Maarten.