Wolfi wrote: > > could you please briefly explain to me, what the purpose/advantage of > an emx-version is compared to the regular OS/2 version released by Mike > Kaply?
Probably the most important is that it ensures OS/2 users of a state-of-the-art browser/websuite regardless of IBM budgets, decisions etc. There's also the compiler issue: there may come a day when the Mozilla code exceeds the capabilities of icc; for gcc, that eventuality verges on the unthinkable. Ideologically, there's even an argument to be made for having an open-source-compiler build of an open-source project. Right now the biggest disadvantage of the EMX builds is the absence of Java support, but that can likely be surmounted at some point; OTOH, people who have compared both versions generally find the EMX faster. Last but not least, the EMX code is the foundation of the three builds for XFree86/2, which have a few features (e.g. MathML support) not available in either PM version. h~
