At 00:23 27/11/2000 -0500, John Welch wrote:
>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
That's to misunderstand the nature of beast. mozilla still uses the
underlying window O/S and all of the messaging, mozilla is not a
replacement windowing system, its an XP overlay.
Simon
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>so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military."
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