[Psi-devel] Jive's new stuff

[Norman Rasmussen]

On 2/6/07, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca> wrote:
> Maciek Niedzielski wrote:
>
> > Norman Rasmussen wrote:
> >> On win32, you can embed an IE browser control, and execute snippets of
> >> script to create functions, etc.  Those functions can call native code
> >> via the window.external object.
> >
> > There are people who'd kill us for using IE control in Psi ;)
>
> Why link to crufty, unmaintained, binary-only libraries like IE if you can
> avoid it?

Because they're pre-built, and guaranteed to be on any windows system,
which means you don't need to deploy anything to use it (so smaller
downloads). Or course this is why malware authors love IE too.

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