Chris, Did you know that BibleStudy as it currently stands has been updated to use wxMozilla? It was the only way that I could get proper right to left rendering working. I will probably take another look at COM/activex versions of mozilla as I rewrite biblestudy to be .net.
-Jason On 1/18/06, Chris Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MSIE has the advantage of already being installed on the user's system > (no code overhead). But it has the disadvantage of not being a very good > renderer, all things considered. And it's closed source. > > We've long desired to hook up Gecko (the renderer in Mozilla/Firefox) as > our Windows renderer, not necessarily because of any open source > philosophical reasons, but because we can access and change the > underlying code--or use other people's modifications, like the addition > of Graphite font rendering. But it comes at the additional cost of a > pretty large download and a rather complex program to build (Gecko). > There's the old ActiveX wrapper for Mozilla, but it was never very > stable and doesn't give us great access to the underlying renderer at > runtime (nor would the MSIE control). > > --Chris > -- http://emptycrate.com Games, Programming, Travel & other stuff _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
