Re: Win7 may ship w/o IE8 in Europe?

[Alexei Vinidiktov <alexei.vinidiktov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Tim Jones<tjmac@tolisgroup.com> wrote:
> On Jun 29, 2009, at 10:57 AM, fargo@rpgportland.com wrote:
>
>>> Rumors are that Win7 may ship w/o IE8 in Europe due to antitrust
>>> pressure.
>>>
>>> If true, does this mean that REALbasic's HTMLViewers won't work on a
>>> stock Win7 install in europe?
>>>
>>> The article seems to suggest this isn't a problem, but it's something to
>>> keep an eye on:
>>>
>>> "Microsoft's Heiner hinted that some of IE would remain in the "E"
>>> versions of Windows 7. "The E versions of Windows 7 will continue to provide
>>> all of the underlying platform functionality of the operating system," he
>>> said. "Applications designed for Windows will run just as well on an E
>>> version as on other versions of Windows 7.""
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Windows&articleId=9134280
>>
>> I imagine that all of the relevant libraries will still be there, because
>> Windows (historically at least) leverages so much of IE's crap, er,
>> functionality for various things, but will be missing the actual iexplore
>> binary that provides a UI.
>
> Nope - in this case, the entirety of the IE environment has been made
> separate from the Windows OS to meet this requirement.  From what we're
> hearing in the developer realm, if it's removed, it won't be available and
> that we should use the "default browser" as defined by the users for
> web-based content.
>

Does it mean that HMTLViewer won't work? What about standard chm help
files? They also use the IE engine for rendering the content.


-- 
Alexei Vinidiktov

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