Re: Lightweight browser

[Paolo Molaro <lupus ximian com>]

On 04/08/01 dLux wrote:
>   I want to make  a lightweight browser for iPAQ (in  perl). I saw the
> gnome-perl  distribution  contains  two   library  wrappers  for  HTML
> processing: GtkHTML and GtkXmHTML.

GtkXmHTML is unmaintained for a lot of time now. gtkhtml is a lot better
is all possible meanings for better.

>   Which  one I  need to  use  if I  want a  very small  HTML-rendering
> engine? What other libraries are required for them?
>   Do  I  really  need  bonobo, gdk-pixbuf,  gnome-print  and  gal  for
> GtkHTML? I have  not found what I need  for GtkXmHTML but I  saw it is
> part of the gnome-libs...

If this is for the PDA, the only requirement you can ditch is bonobo
and prbably also gnome-print, but don't quote me on that. gal is needed
for the unicode support I guess.

>   Can   you   offer  me   example   codes   (besides  the   gnome-perl
> distribution)?

use Gtk::HTML::Simple;

implements most of the needed bits for a working browser.

>   Where can  I see a  feature comparison? I want  to know if  they can
> (in perl):
>     - do continuous downloading of a page
>     - handle tables
>     - view images
>     - handle frames
>     - handle javascript

No javascript support implemented (though that may become available with
gtkhtml2).

lupus

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