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> I've often wondered why OS's just don't host browser render engines internally and draw their UI with that. I believe Windows 8 can do this.
by recursive 12y ago
> I've often wondered why OS's just don't host browser render engines internally and draw their UI with that.
I believe Windows 8 can do this.
- barkingcat 12y agoDidn't Windows use to do this until they got dinged by the anti-trust suit? MSFT had to spend a lot of engineering time decoupling IE from being a critical component in rendering basic file explorer views
- Elv13 12y agoAnd the "active" Windows desktop itself (as part of explorer.exe) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop