Re: Status of gtkhtml(2)?

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik sun com>]

On 20 Nov 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM> writes: 
> > But gtkhtml1 is an accessibility nightmare.  If there is any
> > prospect of using gtkhtml2 in gnomecc instead then I would much
> > prefer it.  Otherwise us accessibility folks may end up having to
> > build an alternate based on gtkhtml2 anyway.
> 
> Don't know - I would expect that adding editing to gtkhtml2, along
> with all the nice UI behavior and debugging done for gtkhtml1 during
> the Evolution release process, would be a boatload of work. Adding
> accessibility to gtkhtml1 may _also_ be a boatload of work, but to an
> outsider with no clue, it's not obvious which boatload is larger. ;-)
> There's also the issue of Pango and bidi and all that, which I guess
> is an edge to gtkhtml2.
> 
> If Evolution doesn't move to gtkhtml2, don't you have to do
> accessibility for gtkhtml1 in any case? I guess Evolution won't be
> accessible until it ports to GTK 2 anyway, and who knows when that
> will happen...
> 
> Sounds like you and Larry and Anders need to sit down and develop The
> Plan.

The it is probably A Good Thing (tm) tha Anders is coming over to Dublin
Real Soon Now.

> 
> Havoc
> 

	Sander

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