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[EpF]

I've been messing around with Track Info pages, and finding that the Internet Explorer engine is frustrating my efforts, with its lack of PNG support and CSS bugs - is it possible to specify firefox as the html engine? If not, would it be possible to implement this? God only knows when we're going to see a version of IE that doesn't cause these problems... 

[glynor]

I would guess that it would take a pretty serious code re-write to implement this, based on the little I know about the situation.  I wouldn't get my hopes up.

[enervation]

It's fairly easy to embed gecko (firefox's rendering engine), as far as I know,although it would increase file size by a couple of mb, and if they have used lots of IE specific stuff (activeX or whatever) then all that would have to be rewritten. That said, a change to gecko would be nice!

[glynor]

It's fairly easy to embed gecko (firefox's rendering engine), as far as I know,although it would increase file size by a couple of mb, and if they have used lots of IE specific stuff (activeX or whatever) then all that would have to be rewritten. That said, a change to gecko would be nice!

Right.  My point exactly.  They'd have to embed it, it wouldn't be a simple Registry Setting change telling MC to use Gecko (assuming you already have Firefox installed) instead of IE, which is what EpF was hoping for I suspect.

It would almost certainly require that J River re-write part of the application, which doesn't seem likely for a non-mission-critical application.

[EpF]

it wouldn't be a simple Registry Setting change telling MC to use Gecko (assuming you already have Firefox installed) instead of IE, which is what EpF was hoping for I suspect.

Yes; I was hoping that there was some way that, with minor effort on J River's part, you could tell MC that you have FX installed and to use that instead of IE. I remember sometime last year I discovered that you could do that for FeedDemon by jumping through a couple of pretty minor hoops. (I just did a quick look for the link but couldn't find it). It worked just fine for me.

I wouldn't expect JRiver to replace large amounts of built-in stuff, but I assumed that MC was mainly making use of my already-installed IE browser...

That does make me wonder if it is costing J River much to use IE as part of MC - what does it cost to use FX?; they might save some money. I'm totally out of my depth on this subject, though, so forgive me if I'm not making any sense!

[glynor]

Assuming they are using Microsoft's Visual Studio to do the development on MC, I don't think you have to pay license fees to use the IE-based controls included with the Microsoft Development Environment.  I could be completely wrong here...