Re: Removing gtkhtml2 view

[John Sheehan <John Sheehan sun com>]

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Alex Larson wrote:
>
>On Thu, 16 May 2002, Sander Vesik wrote:
>
>> On 16 May 2002, Dave Bordoley wrote:
>> 
>> > oops trying again....
>> > 
>> > CCing desktop-devel. For those unfamiliar, we are discussing not
>> > shipping the nautilus gtkhtml view since it's pretty broken and buggy.
>> > Comments?
>> > 
>> 
>> The largest downside to not shipping it is that users will not be able to
>> view even very simple static html files residing on their local disk. Its
>> pretty unlikely that the 'view html source' is the behaviour they would be
>> expecting...
>
>We're aware of this. The two options right now are:
>1) Change default_action_type for HTML to application. Then you'll launch 
>a web browser for html pages.
>
>2) I'm currently looking into a GtkHTML1 web view. It should be pretty 
>simple, and GtkHTML1 is maintained. Although i'm not sure if GtkHTML1 (and 
>gal) is in the current desktop package set...
>

Even if the default action is to launch a web browser for html pages,
there may be value in keeping the option of a gtkhtml2 view for 
accessibility requirements.  Is GtkHTML1 accessible ?

- John

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