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to: Antti Kurenniemi
from: Paul Ranson
date: 2003-02-07 21:21:12
subject: Re: Why IE became popular

From: "Paul Ranson" 

I've used the MSHTML printing stuff before too. There's nothing like doing
something in less than an hour where you might otherwise spend a week.

Paul

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
message news:3e43ddc2$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> One thing I really like in Windows as a programmer is this type of stuff:
IE
> is a part of the OS (as a *non* programmer I don't always like that ),
so
> it's pretty damn easy to use it in my own applications. All it takes is a
> few simple API calls, and wopee, I have a good HTML rendering display with
> printing possibility in my app. I use it often for all sorts of reports in
> my apps, just generate the HTML, display it in "built in"
preview which in
> fact is the rendering part of IE, and with a click of a button the user
can
> print it out. Very snappy stuff.
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
> news:3e4398fb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > I think the really difficult parts of building a browser is the
> > rendering/scripting/DOM/all that stuff. I think CrazyBrowser
> > uses IE components for that. Which is a good thing, not a bad thing...
> >
> > Paul
>
>

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