Re: The HTML component for GtkMozEmbed is enormously improved

[Philip Van Hoof <spam pvanhoof be>]

Hi there,

The GtkMozEmbed HTML component now doesn't load images anymore by
setting mozilla preferences (I wrote a small wrapper that wraps the
Mozilla C++ for this and call it in tinymail).

This indeed means that for libtinymailui-mozembed you will need a C++
compiler (it already linked with libstdc++ for Gecko's stuff).

If people are interested in making this optional, check out the class
initialisation of this file:

https://svn.tinymail.org/svn/tinymail/trunk/libtinymailui-mozembed/tny-moz-embed-html-mime-part-view.c

And this documentation:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Permissions.default.image


ps. Scripts are also denied.



On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 13:43 +0100, Philip Van Hoof wrote:
> I basically rewrote it.
> 
> It will now use the stream API of GtkMozEmbed to stream-in the HTML data
> rather than write it to a temporary file.
> 
> The loading of URL's will be blocked (I haven't yet figured out how to
> also block images, but this is probably going to be something with the
> net_start and net_stop signals and therefore most likely doable).
> 
> It would be nice if the component had some settings like "block images"
> and "block Java scripts" and "resize automatically" and "whatever such a
> HTML component does". I hope people will join me on this one (I'm not
> getting sponsored to do this by a company, so sooner or later I'm going
> to drop working on this a little bit -- prioritising my own time).
> 
> Blocking certain things might mean having to search and replace tags
> while streaming (for example killing the <SCRIPT> tag). Maybe a simple
> mozilla setting can be applied that simply disables JavaScript. I don't
> know, I'm not an expert on this, and I can most certainly use your
> assistance on finding all this out.
> 
> I will also support and port the GtkHTML one from Modest as soon as I
> can legally do this. Webkit and GtkWebCore versions would also be
> accepted and committed almost immediately.
> 
> GtkMozEmbed does not, unlike GtkHTML, support letting the embedding
> application draw images (for example images that are attached). It might
> get supported someday but I'm not seeing support for this today.
> 
> 
> The MozEmbed component was once totally unusable. Today it most
> certainly is usable. So I'm also reenabling it in the defaults for
> tinymail. As soon as the GtkHTML version is available, that will most
> likely become the default HTML component (if available).
> 
> https://svn.tinymail.org/svn/tinymail/trunk/libtinymailui-mozembed/
> 
> 
> Opinions? Thoughts? Code?
> 
> 
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