MS compatible interface to xulrunner?

Steven Edwards winehacker at gmail.com
Mon Jul 19 09:03:34 CDT 2010


Hi Thomas,

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 9:29 AM, Thomas Kaltenbrunner <tkaltenbrunner at opc.de
> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am interested to port the wine interface to the xulrunner back to
> mswindows to access the xulrunner via a IE compatible interface. So it would
> be easy to replace an embedded IE with the gecko-engine.
> After some code browsing I thing it will be some of the "DLLs", especially
> mshtml and shdocvw.
> I just wanted to hear from you an opinion about that project.
> What will be the main changes to the wine code - besides renaming of the
> dlls?
> Where do you see problems?
> Did somebody else worked on that or implemented it already?
>
>
Jacek or one of the Wine IE maintainers will have to help answer this but it
seems like if the dlls can currently be built with a Mingw build then it
should 'just work' assuming you use something like a side by side assembly
with the Wine dlls and a bundled Gecko as opposed to the Windows dlls.

Thanks
-- 
Steven Edwards

"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is
an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
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