Author: Vincent Vega
Date: 23:11:42 02/13/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 01:19:48, Steve Lopez wrote: >Incorrect (for the thousanth time). If IE is not on the computer, all that needs >be installed are a couple of Microsoft DLLs, which are included with Fritz6 as >part of the installation. > >I don't know where this rumor that Fritz6 requires IE got started (probably with >Netscape evangelists), but constantly correcting it is getting pretty old. > >-- Steve Lopez > >The Chess Kamikaze Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/ludekdudek/ >The Chess Kamikaze Club: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/chesskamikazes This misunderstanding can only be made if a person doesn't know much about how IE works. Fact: those "couple DLLs" you dismiss so easily are Internet Explorer's guts. Find iexplore.exe and look at it: it is just a couple calls to start the services in those very DLLs. Look at its size: 78,272 bytes on my computer. Do you really believe that that's all that's required to make such a complex browser? If you give me a computer with those DLLs installed I can remake IE in a couple minutes, only thing missing will be extras. If you still have any doubts that I'm telling you the truth, do the following experiment: go to Fritz, press F1, right click on the help window's title bar, select "Jump to URL" from the menu, enter http://www.yahoo.com. What do you get? You can right click in that page to get all your favorite controls from IE. I'd love to hear your explanation how this page got there if IE isn't sitting fully functional on your computer. OK, here it is from the horse's mouth (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/tools/htmlhelp/wkshp/faq.htm): Do I need Microsoft Internet Explorer to use HTML Help? The HTML Help ActiveX control requires that Internet Explorer be set up on a user's computer. HTML Help works with Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02, but to take advantage of the full functionality of HTML Help, you should use the latest release of Internet Explorer. HTML Help does not require that you use Internet Explorer as your default browser. --- The option to use DLLs instead of full IE install makes sense because a user may not want to have IE icon on a desktop or may not want to change the default browser just to use HTML help. It doesn't change the fact that everything needed to make IE work is indeed installed. And just to make sure you know where I come from, I believe that IE is currently a superior browser to Netscape (may change with Netscape 6.0 based on Mozilla) and I write this in IE.
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