Author: Steve Lopez
Date: 07:59:15 02/14/00
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On February 14, 2000 at 02:11:42, Vincent Vega wrote: >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. The problem is with the way you and a few others in the past have worded it: you make it sound like users of browsers other than IE have to give up their favorite browser and use IE -- and this just isn't so. And each time this rumor pops up, my mailbox is flooded with e-mails from outraged Netscape users who were considering purchasing Fritz "but not if it means I have to stop using Netscape" etc. etc. In any event, one can still always still use the old Win95 style help files instead of the HTML style ones (if using a couple of Microsoft DLLs is somehow considered to be an imposition). If your installation didn't come with these help files, they can be downloaded at www.chessbase.com -- Steve Lopez The Chess Kamikaze Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/ludekdudek/ The Chess Kamikaze Club: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/chesskamikazes
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