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Subject: Re: Fritz's Use of Internet Explorer for HTML Help

Author: Vincent Vega

Date: 23:17:23 02/14/00

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On February 15, 2000 at 00:58:10, Steve Lopez wrote:

>The initial discussion is becoming obscured. Here's the sentence again:
>
>>"Microsoft Internet Explorer is the only browser that will work with the HTML
>>Help viewer components."
>
>This is not the same as saying that IE is required to be your browser of choice
>if you wish to use Fritz6, as several people have erroneously claimed in the
>past.

I have not made a statement that IE is required to be the browser of choice for
anybody.  I am not one of "these people."  To talk about that is confusing the
issue.  I have stated that IE is needed, and the following statement of
Microsoft proves it:

"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."

You can use it surf the Web, so it's obviously there.

>And, as I stated in another post, if a user wishes to use the old Win95-style
>help files (for whatever reason, including not wishing to install the IE
>compatible DLLs), that is offered as an option in Fritz6.

You made your statements about HTML Help not including IE, not about WinHelp.

>If someone feels "forced" to "install IE" in order to be able to use the HTML
>type files, that's a Microsoft issue, not a ChessBase issue.
>
>-- Steve Lopez

No.  Previously you said those people _can use_ HTML Help without installing IE.
 You seemed unaware that those DLLs _were_ IE.  That's incorrect.

This whole discussion is quickly becoming pointless.  By now facts should be
clear to everybody.



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