Hi!
Freya wrote:
> 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?
Yes, you can do that. There's a command-line parameter '-mail'.
> Also can you install say Gecko (the rendering engine) without installing the
> browser part of mozilla, and still run and use the mail part?
Nope, this is currently not possible. But I think this is more a problem
of the install-script than anything else.
You probably could install the full Mozilla package, then delete stuff
like history, browser-UI, http and ftp, but mail would still run fine.
This is only an educated guess, though, I haven't tried it.
> 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! ;)
One of the problems is that Mozilla isn't a system-wide component, so
AFAIK every program that uses it has to bring it's own
Mozilla-installation with it.
Christian
