Re: Question about html widget.
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>
- Cc: Raphael Bosshard <whistler bluewin ch>, Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in>, Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se>, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>, James Henstridge <james daa com au>, GNOME Desktop Devel <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Question about html widget.
- Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 17:08:37 -0500
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:45:14PM -0500, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 15:28, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > - clearly the only really viable engines for *web browsing*
> > (vs. limited lightweight use) are khtml and gecko.
> > gecko is being split out into a library that will be more
> > usable, khtml could be gtk-ported.
>
> BTW, it might be easier to port WebCore than KHTML.
>
> The reason is that Apple didn't port the KHTML code by modifying it
> directly; instead, they wrote replacements for a bunch of Qt/KDE classes
> (just enough to make the port work), and it should be relatively simple
> to port their replacement classes from Cocoa to GTK.
>
> It might be a cool hack for a hacker with some time in his/her hands...
>
> http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/index.html
>
For sure. Forking khtml would be silly; if we use khtml, it should be
some kind of port that will be accepted upstream and shared with
apple/kde. Otherwise you just aren't getting enough critical mass to
have a chance of handling most web pages.
Havoc
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