Wine and the Internet

[Derek Broughton]

Art Alexion wrote:

> On Wednesday, 03 October 2007 21:27, Billie Walsh wrote:
>> >> Should programs running with Wine be able to access the internet
>> >> through the default Kubuntu [ Feisty ] settings?
> 
> Should they or do they?  They probably should, they most likely don't.  I
> find that a lot of windows developers use internet explorer calls to
> access the
> internet.  So if you don't have IE installed, they don't know how else to
> do
> it.  Sometimes installing IE in wine solves the problem, sometime it
> doesn't.
> 

This shouldn't be a problem any longer.  Now that Wine installs a gecko
engine to handle IE calls, it should be handling all these requests - but,
naturally, it's just an extension of the usual Wine problems.  Now instead
of just emulating the Windows API, they're emulating the IE API too.
-- 
derek