On 11/26/00 11:30 PM, in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Mark
Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yep. Namely that a device driver really is an application in and of
> itself (it just happens to be an application whose sole purpose is to
> run a particular device), and the whole reason it breaks in Mozilla is
> because these drivers aren't following the guidelines of the system.
> They're hacking around the real system calls they *should* be using and
> doing it their own way. If they used the documented methods for doing
> this (and the whole fiasco on the Mac is that such methods don't exist
> pre-Carbon; Microsoft has no excuse for their mice on Windows, because
> they wrote the specs :) ), there'd be no problem.
Be that as it may...when the scroll wheel works properly in over a hundred
other apps on my system, and ONLY works badly/not at all in Moz/NS6, then
I'm thinking that Moz/NS6 is NOT the only properly written app...it IS the
only one writing its own interface system...hmmm...
john
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