2009/6/4 DontWannaName! <[email protected]>: > I dont know if they can since they use the hacks that are specific to IE for > the overlay. Hacks in what sense? While I don't imagine it's easy to layer a browser over a game using DirectX, it shouldn't be any harder to add in any arbitrary third-party control, Gecko/WebKit included. I'd be interested to know how they implemented it. (I've been writing software that embeds a browser for part of its functionality recently, and switching it to use Mozilla's engine was a few days work for me working alone.)
> Plus they are probably not willing to rewrite the ingame > browser at all. But they may use your default browser eventually. They can't embed your default browser, but they could switch to something like gecko or webkit. I expect they're using IE because it's the easy option, even if it's not necessarily the best. I can see this being more of a problem now IE is more decoupled from Windows - there's no guarantee that an IE update won't break part of the store, or that a user won't uninstall IE completely leaving Steam unable to show web pages. If Valve were embedding another browser engine they could control the version and know exactly how it behaves. (Plus from an overlay point of view, something like Webkit is considerably faster than IE, so there might be a performance increase.) -Dave _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
