It's certainly true that outlook express requires the rendering part of IE
to be present on the machine (although not neccesarily the browser part, see
win98 lite etc) but what I am really wondering, is can you start the mail UI
without starting the Web Browser interface?
Also can you install say Gecko (the rendering engine) without installing the
browser part of mozilla, and still run and use the mail part?
I really think Mozilla should be made more and more modular in this way, I
mean there are already a number of browser interfaces to Gecko, it would be
great if you could run these with a single mail installation. Perhaps if
mail was a seperate application, then we might even see more than one mail
interface! ;)
I think it's interesting to note that you can install Mozilla without
mail/news! Does that mean that it is now a seperate application, or do you
need to start the browser interface before you can use it?
love
Freya
"Christian Mattar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> Christopher Jahn wrote:
> >
> > And it came to pass that TommyBee at TommyBee dot Com wrote:
> >
> > >Freya wrote:
> > >
> > >> Will the new mozilla mail and news program be intergrated
> > >> into Mozilla in the same way as Netscape mail was
> > >> integrated into Netscape?
> > >>
> > >> I much prefer the way that Outlook express is seperate from
> > >> the browser, that way if you want to use another mail
> > >> client but keep the same browser you can or viz a viz.
> > >
> > >
> > >Currently Mozilla (and Netscape 6 I believe for that matter)
> > >allow you to choose which components to install.
> > >Theoretically you could make two different installations, one
> > >with Navigator and another with Mail / News, but I myself
> > >haven't tried such a feat and wouldn't know if everything
> > >works properly.
> > >
> >
> > But you CAN'T install JUST Mail/News - the Browser must be
> > installed with Mail/News.
>
> AFAIK the same holds true for Outlook Express / IE.
> I think nowadays there isn't a single MS product which doesn't need you
> to install IE.
>
> You have a point, though.
> Perhaps one day someone will write a non-XUL UI for MailNews, so that
> Gecko isn't needed anymore.
> I think Ben Bucksch wrote something about this some weeks ago. Then the
> only overhead would be XPCOM, but you'd have to live with that...
>
> Christian
