Loading of Microsoft Applications on Ubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

Ashley Benton wrote:

> On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Pastor JW
> <pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org>wrote:
> 
>> really have never used WINE.  I believe it actually comes with a version
>> of
>> IE but don't know if it works any better than the windoze one.  I have
>> never
>> had or needed for that matter, IE on any computer I have ever owned which
>> goes all the way back in time to the Alair!
> 
> 
> No wine doesn't come with Internet Explorer, it is just a base where you
> can install windows programs.

What it comes with is preconfigured settings to download the "gecko" html 
engine, which gets invoked when programs running under Wine try to use IE 
directly.  That works for any program that invokes IE to display valid HTML.  
If the actual page relies on IE tricks, then you still need IE.
-- 
derek