GSoC 2015 projects

[Zhenbo Li]

Hello!

I'm glad to working on Wine GSoC this year. My project's focus is
IHMLTXMLHttpRequest. Many websites would use hacks to determine
whether the browser was IE6.0 or IE 7+. As XMLHttpRequest object
identifier was shipped in IE 7.0[0], the web developers would use
ActiveX to access IXMLHttpRequest object. Wine IE implements some new
features, so it is common that Wine IE is treated as a IE 7+
browser(like Firebug Lite[1])

Mozilla has implemented nsIXMLHttpRequest[2], and my approach is to
call the wine-gecko functions from wine code.
I can't tell how many applications' status on appdb will change from
"garbage" to "silver/gold", but IMHO, implementing XMLHttpRequest is
necessary to make wine IE more usable.

Thanks

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest
[1]: https://getfirebug.com/firebuglite
[2]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/nsIXMLHttpRequest

2015-05-25 1:21 GMT+08:00 Matteo Bruni <matteo.mystral at gmail.com>:
> Hey all,
>
> tomorrow the coding period of the Summer of Code begins and I though
> it might be a nice idea to let the community know about the projects
> we've got this year. Actually, I though it would be even better if the
> student themselves wrote a short summary of their own project for the
> mailing list.
>
> So, with no authority backing me, I'm kindly asking that. No need to
> write anything too fancy, just a few lines explaining what are you
> going to work on over the summer and maybe what are the expected
> benefits for Wine.
>
> Thank you!
> Matteo.



-- 
Have a nice day!
Zhenbo Li