Does the Windows version of Mozilla need to be installed to use the Mozilla ActiveX plugin?

[Jacek Caban]

Hello.

Aric Cyr wrote:

 >David D. Hagood <david.hagood <at> aeroflex.com> writes:
 >
 > 
 >
 >>Does the Windows version of Mozilla need to be in place for the Mozilla
 >>Active X control to work, or is there a way to point the control at my
 >>Linux install of Mozilla?
 >>   
 >>
Mozilla ActiveX Control doesn't need any version of Mozilla. It just uses
Gecko (Mozilla's engine), which is provided with it, so you don't have
to install anything else.

 >
 >There was talk about using a native Mozilla instead of a win32 
version, however
 >I don't think that was ever finished, or was deemed too difficult.
 > 
 >

Not really. It even was implemented and working, but it is
impossible to do it  in an acceptable way for Wine. That's
because we don't have a good way to embed Gecko's window
inside a Wine window. You may read about it here:
http://www.winehq.org/?issue=285#MSHTML%20Update

Jacek