----- Original Message ----- From: "Reggie Burnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 1:42 PM Subject: Re: Disrespect / IE 5.01 requirement
> yes, I have several responses concerning distributino of IE but the second > part of my question specifically asked for a technical reason why IE 5.01 > sp2 is required. That is still unanswered. probably for a minimum version of MSXML; the IE5.01 version; SP2 merely brings security issues up to date. Now you can redist MSXML4 standalone quite easily...I dont know if that is enough for .NET or whether it checks for the whole browser. Other than technical there are the strategic issues, as discussed in DoJ prelimimary findings of fact... > > I would bet, however, that certain of the .net framework dlls for things > > like winforms and the ilk -- including possibly namespaces such as > > System.Net (the Http* classes, for instance), could very likely use > > portions of the IE engine. They'd better not; wininet doesnt work server side. > The biggest reason behind my recent usage of the moniker M$ was my belief > that the .Net runtime has been arbitrarily tied to IE to promote > distribution of IE. Some of my clients are physicians that very often have > boxes with Windows 98 that have been in service for years with no upgrades. > Now, it appears that I will have to force them to download an upgraded IE > before they can use my app. Now if I am not using any of the HTTP classes > nor any of the web service stuff, then why might I need IE? The real > difference [and trust me when I tell you this is not a plug for one over the > other] is that I use many platforms and the MSFT platform is the only one > where marketing and financial boundaries come into play. On Windows, a > particular product/technology might not work on Win95 but will on Win98, > won't work in Windows 2000 Pro but will on Windows 2000 Server. Not because > it simply won't work but because Microsoft won't make as much $$ if they let > you run it on Windows 2000 Pro. This is the type of behavior I don't like. > I want MSFt to make money but I want to build my apps based on technical > merit of the underlying system, not based on decisons made inside the > financial pipeworks of Microsoft. I have no idea on the merit of that, but like I said, MSXML is a foundational component of IE drops. You can read messages from the DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
