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Re:Retiring Internet Explorer by wvenable on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @07:59PM (#22123809)
> But that doesn't stop Microsoft from not shipping that small wrapper.

They could but that goes back to reply about it existing software still requiring IE.

IE will be around for as long as very critical apps still require it. In some form, it might be around forever.

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Re:Retiring Internet Explorer by Polylactic_acid on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:47AM (#22125154)
IE should just be a compatibility mode in edge so you only have one program and a button to say "this page is broken, load in legacy mode". That way everyone else in the world can stop being forced to support IE users.
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Re:Retiring Internet Explorer by AstralStorm on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:56AM (#22126812)
This won't work where ActiveX is required. They would have to write a plug-in wrapper...
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Re:Retiring Internet Explorer by sjwright on Sunday January 26, 2020 @09:50AM (#22152308)
The legacy mode would surely run MSHTML.dll for the entire page.
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