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Technology Stocks : MSFT Internet Explorer vs. NSCP Navigator
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To: Gerald R. Lampton who wrote (22579)2/5/1999 3:36:00 AM
From: Bearded One  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
Good points. This brings up an issue that I think has been hinted at but not explored fully.

I can write a program to put a smiley face on the screen in less than 1K of compiled code. I can write the same program and insert all of Windows NT 4.0 into my code, and have it just put a smiley face on the screen. The presence of the Windows NT 4.0 software in my second version of the program doesn't change its functionality one bit as long as I don't present an interface to the NT 4.0 portion of my code.
That's what Ed Felten meant when he said that, once his program removed the interfaces to IE 4.0, that IE 4.0 was "gone." Even though much of the code remained on the computer, its lack of accesibility rendered it nothing more than bits floating on a spinning hard drive.

So lets consider this "mshtml.dll" which is part of IE 4.0, and which
they then 'integrated' into the operating system. I claim that if Microsoft wanted to give that functionality to Mr. Devlin's help system, they could include mshtml.dll with their OS, whether or not
they include "IE 4.0." In some sense, mshtml.dll by itself is a new 'product.' But certainly the existance of mshtml.dll on the hard drive does not have to be tied to the existance of the IE 4.0 icon on the desktop. Mr. Devlin's help system does not move the users mouse over the IE 4.0 icon and click on it-- it uses a different interface to the underlying code.

It's late, and I'm probably not making this as clear as I could. The point is that the different interfaces to the mess of code called IE 4.0 can be dealt with separately.
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