Re: Technical challenges to porting IE to Linux?

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Partly, but I think the major reason is that, because of the intergration of
IE in Windows, Windows will not function normally unless the required part
of IE is loaded at startup. (Just remember some rumors that Windows will
drop some percents of performance if user removed IE from Win98, and believe
that still hold true for newer Windows OSs) And that creates a difference.

Think of some software that includes a startup icon that partial loads
itself at startup. They really seems to take shorter loadtime than others
don't.

"theseer540" <theseer540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ¼¶¼g©ó¶l¥ó·s»D:DA20E5BD-2B70-4015-BCFD-98BE88631827@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I understand how IE has been integrated into Windows, but I guess my point
> is, then how did they port to Mac OS X ?
>
> On another note, one of the strengths of IE over firefox is that it loads
> a
> LOT faster than firefox on Windows. Why? Is this because because the code
> is
> heavily optimised for Windows, or because the Gecko rendering environment
> is
> inherently slower than IEs ?
>
> "Gary Smith" wrote:
>
>> theseer540 <theseer540@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I was just wondering whether there were any specific challenges to
>> > porting IE
>> > to Linux (Besides the political issues). IE was succesfully ported to
>> > OS X,
>> > and as it is on a BSD base, I imagine the port to linux would be
>> > relatively
>> > painless. I know that a lot of linux users don't like IE, but there
>> > are
>> > plenty of websites that REQUIRE it. Any ideas/comments?
>>
>> I would guess that the major challenge to porting IE to Linux is that
>> Microsoft has no interest in doing so or in allowing anyone else to do
>> so.
>> The next greatest challenge would be the extreme integration of IE into
>> Windows. Making it work independently of the operating system would be a
>> big job.
>>
>> --
>> Gary L. Smith gls432@xxxxxxxxx
>> Columbus, Ohio
>>


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