Wine Gecko 0.9.0

[Bamm]

The announcement of Wine 1.1.12 mentions a new version of Wine Gecko, version 0.9.0. I have two questions:

1. What version of Gecko is this based on? Will this improve the way installed apps render pages?

2. How will this affect existing programs that have Wine Gecko 0.1.0 in their Wine environment? I have the old cab file in /usr/share/wine/gecko which gets installed whenever I wineboot. Will the new Gecko automatically replace it and be used seemlessly by the apps?

I wish to clarify this issue (especially the second) since I plan to upgrade to Wine 1.1.12. Thanks for any responses.

[vitamin]

1. What version of Gecko is this based on?

Latest available.

Will this improve the way installed apps render pages?

Yes

2. How will this affect existing programs that have Wine Gecko 0.1.0 in their Wine environment?

They should still work. In some cases even better.

Will the new Gecko automatically replace it and be used seemlessly by the apps?

Wine will tell you that Wine-Gecko is not installed and will ask you to download it.

[Bamm]

Thanks Vitamin. I've started testing the new Gecko and it indeed works as you said.

One minor thing though: I think it's not the latest. Try this:

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wine iexplore.exe http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html

The Gecko 1.9 branch which Firefox 3.0 is based passed this test almost two years ago, so the latest Wine Gecko could not have been from this branch. It fails the test badly *just like the real iexplore.exe*

Does anyone know which Gecko version it is based on aside from the "latest available"?

[austin987]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Bamm <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks Vitamin. I've started testing the new Gecko and it indeed works as you said.

One minor thing though: it's not the latest. Try this:


Code:
wine iexplore.exe http://www.webstandards.org/files/acid2/test.html



The Gecko 1.9 branch which Firefox 3.0 is based passed this test almost two years ago, so the latest Wine Gecko could not have been from this branch. It fails badly *just like the real iexplore.exe* [Laughing]

Does anyone know which Gecko version it is based on aside from "the latest"?

http://wiki.winehq.org/BuildingWineGecko

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-Austin

[vitamin]

It fails the test badly *just like the real iexplore.exe*

First of all Wine reimplements lots of things itself (like java script). So it will not be compatible with Firefox. Second, Wine has lots of bugs in that area.

So unless you interested in fixing all those problems yourself, adding them as a conformance tests to Wine first. Don't bother pointing people that there are some tests Wine-Gecko doesn't pass.

[Bamm]

First of all Wine reimplements lots of things itself (like java script). So it will not be compatible with Firefox.

I'm not asking it to be compatible with Firefox. I'm asking which version of Gecko it was based on. If you don't know the answer, just say so.

As I understand it, the way it is rendered has nothing to do with Wine bugs. It's just which version of Gecko it uses. Oh, and the Acid Test is not JavaScript, it's just CSS.

[Bamm]

http://wiki.winehq.org/BuildingWineGecko
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-Austin

Thanks Austin! Will try that.

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sorry to go off topic, but where can i get the file 'wine_gecko-0.9.0.cab.' It seem that the mirrors on sourceforge has all gone down. I tried searching all over (torrents and such) and even the old verison (0.1.0) is down on sourceforge. Please help or if someone can host the file, email me or show when i can download it.


Please go here to see what i mean.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=195269

[dimesio]

Please go here to see what i mean.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=195269

I just tried it--the link works fine for me.

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i'm an idiot!! hmmm.... my friend is able to download it also... i must be doing something then.... tried both my browsers (firefox and opera). tried the direct link too. oh wells, thanks anyways for the quick reply, my friend emailed me it