Re: [Amis-devl] [Amis-users] Internet explorer 7.
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From: Marisa D. <ma...@di...> - 2007-02-19 14:48:52
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on 2/18/2007 5:21 PM Moira Clunie wrote: > > What would your requirements be for an alternative text renderer? Have > you looked at Mozilla Firefox lately? It's free and Open Source, > supports the CSS standard more thoroughly than IE (i.e. more options for > visual display of text) and has better support for XML (i.e. would work > more easily for DAISY 3). It's also cross-platform which would make it > easier to make Mac or Linux versions of AMIS. Firefox (or, more generally, the Gecko engine) meets all of the requirements except one: it looks like a lot of work to embed in a windows application. This is the only area where IE has the advantage (you literally just drop it in). At one time someone was working on an Active X control for Gecko, but there isn't much activity lately, as far as I can tell. On Linux, Gecko will be as easy to embed as IE in windows, since it's built into one (or more?) toolkits. > I don't think it has > built-in SMIL support yet though, and it might not work quite so well > with major screen readers - e.g. JAWS only officially supports Firefox > from version 7.0. We do our own SMIL support, so that's no problem :) As for screenreaders, we have a developer who has done JFW scripts for AMIS which I believe override some of the web browser controls, so it could be that people aren't even using the embedded web browser like they would use a regular browser. > Another downside is that it's not installed by default > on most people's computers - but since it's Open Source, perhaps the > relevant bits could be bundled into the AMIS installation? I think we can work around this, you're right, we could just include the right files with our own installer. Thanks for bringing this up, it is periodically on my mind. There would be a lot of advantages to using Mozilla once the initial challenges were out of the way. Marisa |