[cw-discuss] When will CrossOver be XP based

[Joseph Bush]

Thanks for the clarification, Francois!

As I have both IE and HTML Engine installed in my Visio Bottle, is  
there some means by which I can have Visio favor HTML Engine over IE  
for these Help searches?

Joe.

On May 24, 2007, at 4:05 AM, Francois Gouget wrote:

> Joseph Bush wrote:
> [...]
>> But if I click the highlighted links outside of the online help  
>> box, up comes Safari with the linked page.
>
> If a Windows application just requests that CrossOver open a given  
> URL in a browser, then by default we will open it in a native  
> browser (i.e. a Mac OS X or Linux browser). It's also possible to  
> have such URLs be sent to Internet Explorer, and it may also happen  
> if IE set itself up as the default Windows browser. In any case  
> this is configurable either wat in the bottle options in CrossOver  
> Setup.
>
> When a Windows application tries to display a web page itself,  
> typically in one of its windows, then it's a completely different  
> matter. Generally they do so by loading the dll that does the web  
> page rendering in Internet Explorer. In that case things cannot be  
> handed off to a native browser. So in this case the rendering is  
> either handled by the 'CrossOver HTML Engine' or by Internet  
> Explorer itself if you installed it.
>
>
> -- 
> Francois Gouget
> fgouget at codeweavers.com