The announcement of Wine 1.1.12 mentions a new version of Wine Gecko, version 0.9.0. I have two questions: 1. What version of Gecko is this based on? Will this improve the way installed apps render pages? 2. How will this affect existing programs that have Wine Gecko 0.1.0 in their Wine environment? I have the old cab file in /usr/share/wine/gecko which gets installed whenever I wineboot. Will the new Gecko automatically replace it and be used seemlessly by the apps? I wish to clarify this issue (especially the second) since I plan to upgrade to Wine 1.1.12. Thanks for any responses. :)
Bamm wrote:> 1. What version of Gecko is this based on?Latest available. Bamm wrote:> Will this improve the way installed apps render pages?Yes Bamm wrote:> 2. How will this affect existing programs that have Wine Gecko 0.1.0 in their Wine environment?They should still work. In some cases even better. Bamm wrote:> Will the new Gecko automatically replace it and be used seemlessly by the apps?Wine will tell you that Wine-Gecko is not installed and will ask you to download it.
Bamm wrote:> It fails the test badly *just like the real iexplore.exe*First of all Wine reimplements lots of things itself (like java script). So it will not be compatible with Firefox. Second, Wine has lots of bugs in that area. So unless you interested in fixing all those problems yourself, adding them as a conformance tests to Wine first. Don't bother pointing people that there are some tests Wine-Gecko doesn't pass.