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Apple, protecting the user from himself? As for removing IE. My understanding is that this would perhaps remove the UI and certain other assets, but the engine
by digi_owl 9y ago
Apple, protecting the user from himself?
As for removing IE. My understanding is that this would perhaps remove the UI and certain other assets, but the engine and various other bits would remain as the rest of the Windows UI relies on it.
Or at least that seemed to be the technical side of the claim that IE could not be removed during the antitrust trial.
- pjc50 9y agoYeah, IE has at least two parts: "mshtml.dll" which is the rendering engine, and "iexplore.exe" which is the UI frame around it. On my system mshtml is 23MB and iexplore is 800kB, so I think we can infer where most of the logic is. Microsoft made the integrated help, "active desktop", and I think a few parts of Explorer depend on mshtml.dll.
- pjmlp 9y agoAs well as, what was the first wave of "Electron" apps, thankfully largely ignored.