Re: Any way to get with the keyboard the "Search the web" field?

[Tim Horton <tim hortont com>]

On Apr 29, 2009, at 18:27, Magnus Therning wrote:

> Tim Horton wrote:
> > Seed is Javascript-based. It uses WebKit's Javascript engine, so if  
> > you have any familiarity with the language, you shouldn't have too  
> > much trouble.
> > http://live.gnome.org/Seed (or email me, I'm one of the Seed devs)
> > There are a few example extensions... somewhere. I thought they  
> > were in the epiphany repo, but they might not be; if you want them,  
> > I'll find them :-)
>
> I find the description on that page somewhat confusing. :-)

It's not an extension of the internals of the interpreter, per se;  
it's actually a library which itself consumes the Webkit and Gobject  
Introspection APIs and turns around and provides both an embedding API  
that wraps all of JSCore, and a small program which allows one to  
write standalone applications. I'll see if I can't make the l.g.o  
description make more sense at some point (it was mostly written in a  
hurry a few months ago when we first moved to GNOME SVN).

> Is it a JavaScript interpreter that has been extended so that  
> GObjects can be accessed and treated like built-in objects?  (I  
> guess that's what the "dynamic bridging" is about.  Is the bridging  
> also seamless?)
>
> I guess the mention of it as a "library" means that it's suitable  
> for embedding, right?

We're hoping to stick Seed extensions in lots of places in GNOME, to  
provide a small and well-integrated language to write plugins and  
stuff in. It seems to be pretty easy to get working, embedding-wise,  
anyway!

> Anyway, the examples look straight forward enough, and using the  
> webkit "javascript engine" is clever.  I won't mind rewriting my e-e  
> using it once it's put to use in epiphany.

Glad to hear you don't object :-) It's actually already in Epiphany in  
Git, you just have to configure with "--enable-seed --enable- 
introspection --disable-python", if you want to play around!

> /M
>
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