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From his resume :

I have progressed rapidly into many areas through both theoretical and practical research in the following areas:

Marketing , Networking, Psychology (Child and Adult), Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Systems Analysis, Teaching, Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Astro Physics, PC maintenance and enhancement, Human-Computer Symbiosis, Robotics, Philosophy, Cybergenetics, Medical simulation checking, Virtual Reality, Vision Recognition, Computer animation and ray-tracing, Machine code low level programming, Legal hacking, MIDI sound recording, back-up systems, network databasing, autonomous vehicle research, Natural Language Processing, Heuristic reasoning systems, Computer search techniques, Use of the G.P.S, the use of over three million pounds worth of PC software and finally programming in over twenty five languages (at least one example of any significant language development since 1965). I can now become proficient in most languages within a week.

          This list shows quite a diverse level of experience and can be explained by saying that [...] I was completely self taught and all research was self funded.

He may not be stupid, but he's certain to be manipulative or exploitative before being worth anyone's notice or praise.

I went through with my new years resolution to remove google from all my browsers.

As of right now, obsolete versions of Internet Explorer still account for roughly 35 percent of web usage share: 20% IE 6 and 15% IE 7. In order to deploy a web application that works on both downlevel Internet Explorer and standards-based web browsers, you can A. spend time and money working around all of IE's CSS bugs, file format deficiencies (no real XHTML, no SVG), and lack of new elements such as <canvas>, or embed a browser within a browser. The ActiveX browser control based on Gecko appears to be unmaintained for years, but Google offers one called Chrome Frame. So what do you recommend that sites hosting web applications use instead of Chrome Frame?

And with 'search' going to be directly embedded into the applications, the 'choice' of browser is going to become moot.

Not necessarily, if you can replace the IE Active-X components that Windows apps use by another dll -- e.g. http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm.
I doubt though that Mozilla will pull themselves together to release such a DLL, Google/Opera seem more likely (to me).

Either way, I read the 'Register'-quote from the summary as exactly that: Search has to be replaceable with other browsers. Another way is to always call the browser, and not use in-application results.

2004 called

on wine AFAIK, you don't actually need to install IE to get steam working, there is some sort of hack to get it working using gecko! can this be done on windows?

There is a wrapper around Mozilla that exposes it via the same COM interfaces that IE provides for hosting purposes. It would be possible to use that, and write a simple stub DLL that would be registered for CLSID_WebBrowser (MSHTML), but would instead instantiate CLSID_MozillaBrowser (the wrapper). Once done, all applications on the system should pick the new engine. It would be somewhat more complicated to do this for specific apps only, but still possible if you intercept DLL calls using something like Detours, and look for and intercept any attempts to do CoCreateInstance(CLSID_WebBrowser). No idea if anyone actually tried, but it should be fairly trivial for anyone moderately proficient in Win32 development.

Publish the specifications of the integration API that IE supports, so that it can be implemented in other browsers

You mean the ability to host IE in applications? It has been public for a long time now, and people have re-implemented that on top of Mozilla.

Publish the source code to IE so that people can see what's missing from the API

So corporations should be forced to open source their products now?

Bundle Mozilla, Opera and Safari

Why not Chrome? Who decides?

Ask the user for a URL, then download a browser as part of the installation process

Ask the user to insert a CD containing the browser

That doesn't make much sense. It's obviously far more convenient to finish the installation, and let the user use the preinstalled browser to download and install whatever he wants (or, if he really has browser-on-a-CD, stick that into the hard drive and watch autorun install it). There's no point in making this part of install process at all.

If I recall correctly, the API:s that expose browser components (e.g. to Windows Help) were designed with the intention of making rendering engines pluggable. Thus, Windows Help could at some point in the future use Mozilla to render if Mozilla wrote a bit of code and Microsoft finishes this API.

The API to host IE is COM-based, so it consists of a bunch of interfaces, all of which are documented. Technically, anyone can reimplement those interfaces to the spec, replace IE's CLSID in the registry with its own, and everything on the system will start using the new code. We do actually have the first part of it done already, though the coverage is not 100%.

The tricky part is that most applications that host IE also assume IE-specific behavior when rendering pages, running scripts, ability to host ActiveX controls inside, and so on. That's what's hard to duplicate.

http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm

Here, now fuck off.

. Until FF does this.....

You means, since 2005 ?

Why can't HTML5 be implemented as a plug in?

Because that'd be like making Firefox into a plug-in for IE. Oh wait: that already happened.

Wrong. There's Mozilla ActiveX component - http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm (which is used in Wine for IE emulation, BTW).

http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm

Lord only knows why that even exists...

cowboy neal knows?

http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm

Lord only knows why that even exists...

I am not at all sure if this is official or not for Ireland but this appears on many websites
http://www.iol.ie/~discover/driving.htm

"Avoid accidents at traffic signals by not braking suddenly when the lights turn to amber. This note particularly applies to drivers from GB who frequently create accident situations for themselves by not adopting to the driving style of the country they are driving in."

I think it's supposed to be stop if its safe to do so, and pretty much it is not safe to do so if there are cars behind you. Whats really annoying is when people enter a junction when they cannot clear the junction and block it for the drivers who have a green but can't proceed because of the idiot straddling the junction. Obviously volume of traffic is going to cause jams, but blocking junctions makes it worse. Too many drivers drive with complete self interest when really enlightened self interest is better. John Forbes Nash got this right
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nash_Equilibrium

For example near my home is a road ,with cars parked either side, which generally only has room for one lane of traffic at a time . It's best negotiated by traffic taking turns, one direction will wait till the other direction has cleared before going the other way. Locals know this but other drivers sometimes ignore this common sense and then you get two cars or more meeting in the middle with the only answer being for someone to reverse. Sometimes people try to take advantage of the otherside waiting, and think they can go anyway even when really its time to give way since there's a queue waiting in the other direction. The problem with this is that it becomes impossible to proceed if too many cars are waiting to go the other way.

So essentially it pays to wait a little while if the flow is against you and it pays to wait a little if the other direction is already backed up. I just wish more drivers were aware that their self interest was increasing their (and everybody elses) journey times.

Firefox is not a replacement either, because it does not implement any of the interfaces that the IE framework does (even though they could go to MSDN and implement them, but we're talking about a lot of work here.)

You mean something like this?

It's not complete, but it does most of the basic stuff. In fact, it even includes a patcher to switch third-party apps from IE to FF:

In the current state of the Mozilla control, it is possible to run the IEPatcher tool on existing binaries and have them run using the Mozilla control.

"You guys are just asking to get bombed by the IRA!"

That isn't going to happen since it has since become knowledge that the IRA was being run by the a branch of British security, the Force Research Unit ..

There is an ActiveX plugin for Firefox: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm

Either browser could easily support ActiveX on Windows if they wanted to. The main reason they don't is for marketing reasons (because it's perceived to be insecure).

Aside from that ActiveX is actually a documented Open Group standard, and there are (were) 3rd party implementations.

http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm

Wine uses it. It's as standards-compliant as Gecko, which is probably enough for you (unless it's an evangelical thing)

In any case, it's better than Internet Explorer's ActiveX (where standards are concerned)

NOTE: That link's a bit old, but should be more than adequate.

He never said it would be web-based. Although, I think you can run this in Internet Explorer...

It already has: http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm

Hurry! Install now! Be the first in your subnet to be pwned by an ActiveX eXploit.

There is actually one already. I don't know if it works with current versions of Gecko, however.

The unnamed bullying "Cork Ireland Professor" in the Wall Street Journal article must regret using ReputationDefender, who succeeded in having him named as Professor Ivan Perry at http://www.geocities.com/stuartdneilson/Reputation DefenderInc.htm http://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/2007/01/reput ation-defender-to-consider-bullied.html http://bulliedacademics.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_ar chive.htmlhttp://www.indymedia.ie/article/81398> http://www.iol.ie/~stuartneilson/bullying/ http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=6377 57&mc=4&forum_id=2

That is impressive results for a few dollars.

Lauch.com still doesnt support Firefox for their audio streams and goes the more than doubtful way of attempting to install a flavor of the Mozilla ActiveX Plugin (bases on this one, just with the WMP ActiveX Plugin and their page in the whitelist) This gets more funny when u go to a european MTV side and start thier "Overdrive" plattform, which will attempt exactly the same. I guess this wide use(without contributing to the code at all) is the very reason why there isn't any ActiveX Plugin for Firefox 2.0 yet on the original page.. But going back it s just idiotic to try to get the user to install it at all.. it s not stable enough.. it s more a proove of concept than mission critical code.. and it s more to bypass the problem of sites that are coded in an IE only way... There is a WMP plugin for Mozilla Browsers!!! You just have to script it properly (with JS that is) it s not rocket science. Why am i telling this all? My point is: if Yahoo and MTV can't do this, why should out of all Walmart be able to? (okay it seems like MTV_com is better.. i just cant open any video cause it seems to check the IP and then says they cant show me that in my country... IP block cause of IP rights.. isnt it ironic? i know, proxy is the solution) On a sidenote AOL doesnt seem to be any better.. right it s AOL... hey guys... if your new strategy really shall work you better.. ah hell we have told you a million times...

"You may have no use for the trade association these creative people support, but you'd better also have no use for films as good as Serenity."

I got the impression that the MPAA is not an organization for creative people, rather it is an organization of film distributors.

If you look here:
      http://www.mpaa.org/AboutUs.asp

it says in part:
    "these associations represent not only the world of theatrical film, but serve as leader and advocate for major producers and distributors of entertainment programming for television, cable, home video and future delivery systems not yet imagined. "

So while I fully appreciate your comment, the MPAA doesn't appear to serve as the voice of the creative community, unless you're counting the creative accounting practices that some people say are typical of MPAA members:
      http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp ?j=207126280&p=zx7yz6986

But who really knows what's true and what's not?

Here you go.

I think there's a plugin for that.

It uses Mozilla Active X
which is basically embedded gecko with the same API as the IE control.

You grossly oversimplify; actually, the situation was a lot more complex than that. Saddam was selling oil way too cheap, in euros, to the French. So we didn't like him.

Right.... and the reason that Enron's executives are liable for repaying $183 million, and probably jail time, is that their stock "under-performed" the market.

Saddam used the wholly corrupt "Oil for Food" program to bribe all manner of foreign officials, buy influence in the Security Council, undermine UN sanctions, buy weapons, and fund terrorists, all the while skimming billions of dollars off the top. Even UN Secretary General Koffi Annan's son took bribes, and the Deputy Secretary General was eye deep as well. So, it was that, his refusal to fully and voluntarily comply with the weapons inspections, his record of genocide, aggression against pretty much every country around him, the abysmal human rights record, his military regularly fired on US aircraft (act of war), his support for international terrorists, well.... you get the picture, .... that is why we "didn't like him".

Personally, I think you want to let President Saddam "I grind my opponents alive, and my sons are worse" Hussein off the hook a little too easily.

http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm

http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm

For Firefox and SeaMonkey anyway... http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/mozilla.htm

Would it not be possible to simply embed Gecko in an ActiveX control, and have an IE conditional at the top of your page that loaded the ActiveX control and then viewed the page with that? Since IE caches ActiveX controls, there will only be a downloading delay the first time it's used...

SCO executives and possibly even the goddamned shareholders should do jail time for fraudulent use of the courts.

Along with a number of MS execs. Darl is a bit like an NFL player. Team Redmond hired him for X million per season knowing that his career was likely to be very short. The plan is and was stock kiting scheme to conceal anti-competitive behaviour. Fortunately for them, they live in Bush's America where it is ok to rape children so long as you don't copy music.

LaTeX (I'm pretty sure this is available for Linux & Windows too)
Mellel, which has some very good reviews
Manuscript
Which may not be as full-featured.

[E]xcept for at work, where we have a couple of IE-only apps.

Might be time to test those internal apps with the Firefox ActiveX plugin, if that's the only thing holding you back...

iepatcher and Mozilla Control.

iepatcher has to be run on every dll and exe on the system. That uses the IE activeX.

Also some programs don't work after this. Outlook does. MSN depending on version. Ie the DOM section of Mozilla Control does not match IE activex any program use these will play up if its expecting the IE layout. http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm.

Registry patch removes the rest.

After system is fine IE can be removed to back conner of the system only to be placed back for installs.

Note a modiffered mozilla control to overlay where the IE activeX is could also be built.

They should make the API details public, so that you can replace the mshtml code with an html rendering engine of your choice, such as gecko or khtml

It is, and you can (with Gecko, at least).

On Windows, this is actually quite easy - and the reason it's so vulnerable.

I'm not entirely sure if you're suggesting this is because of the IE engine. It's worth mentioning you can of course integrate the Mozilla engine into your Windows applications just as easily using this Mozilla ActiveX Control. It uses the same API's as the various IE controls. (Oddly, whenever this control is mentioned alot of /.ers seem to think it's a way of bringing ActiveX applets to the Mozilla web browser, they obviously have no clue or read TFP).

This doesn't really make your application with embedded browser more secure/less vulnerable. Anything that let's code from 'user input' (javascript, rendering etc) run in a thread within your application is vulnerable just like anything else. Including Mozilla.

Apologies if you didn't mean 'because of the IE engine, integrated browser applications using it will be insecure'.

For me, an important issue is that it is difficult (but not impossible, see the Mozilla Control project) to substitute a different rendering engine in place of IE's. Microsoft's real "crime" was making it relatively simple to include their browser engine in other applications, and making it relatively difficult to have a different engine be included in it's place.

I was developing an Windows application that required an embedded web control. I looked at the Mozilla Control but the control is tied in to specific versions of Firefox/Mozilla. Every time a user downloaded an updated copy of Firefox/Mozilla, my app would "break" until a matching copy of the control was released. A "test" version of the control for Firefox 1.5 was released on 12/15/05, no "release" version is out yet. For commercial applications to implement a Gecko-based ActiveX plugin instead of IE's - Mozilla needs to include a plug-in as part of its release when it puts out browsers. Otherwise, IE isn't going to go away (in its executable or ActiveX incarnations)

My first thought was "April first isn't for months now!", but no kidding, there really IS an active-X plugin for Mozilla. http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/plugin.htm Not that I'd touch it with a ten-foot, uh, really long thing...just because I run Linux doesn't make me reckless...

Yes a miserable failure. How can running a 500 billion dollar deficit be considered anything other than a failure? its really to bad that other people are going to have to clean up his mess... What happens when China finally decides to stop lending the US billions of dollars every year? Who is going to pay back the 8 TRILLION dollar debt the US already has? I wonder how much interest someone would have to pay each year on 8 trillion dollars.

Now lets list the other failures... Well Lying to the American public and the world about their reasons to invade and occupy IRAQ, do you think anyone would have supported the reasons to go to war if bush says "I really don't like Saddam, and he has lots of oil so lets go get him".

Has anyone ever heard the phrase "Your doing a heck of a job brownie". Hell since 9/11 he hasn't even been able to capture Bin Laden but to hide his failure he "liberated" IRAQ.. to bad the Iraqi's don't see him as a liberator... I guess the thousand protestors in Pakistan just haven't come around yet either? I wonder how happy Americans would be if china bombed a US neighborhood to kill an enemy than said that the woman and children who were killed were an unfortunate necessity. What makes an American childs life worth more than a child in pakistan? and you wonder why they grow up wantring to blow America.

ActiveX [...] requires Internet Explorer

Says who?

It's IE-only, and unsupported (for good reason) in Firefox, SeaMonkey, Konqueror, Galeon, Safari, OmniWeb, Opera, Lynx, Links...

That's not necessarily so. ActiveX is supportable in other browsers, they just don't do it by default. Here is one project of several that make it possible.

http://www.iol.ie/~locka/mozilla/control.htm#downl oad These guys rock.