Re: Home Page Reader (was Re: Lies, Damned Lies & Statistics)

At 10:34 AM 02/11/00 -0500, you wrote:
>The new version must have IE installed on the system, not Netscape -
>probably because Netscape simply doesn't have the MSAA hooks
>necessary for the blind.  Whatever reason, this product is not browser
>dependent in terms of having to use one or the other, but it does use some=
 of
>the innards of IE.

The reason for this is that IE is the only browser to date that is=20
modular.  It means that other apps can use its dlls to render HTML within=20
their own interface (like Eudora, Allaire HomeSite and Cold Fusion Studio,=
=20
Outlook, NeoPlanet, etc).  IE has had this capability since version=20
3.0.  NN 6 will be the first Netscape version to offer the same capability.

St=E9phane Bergeron

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