Am 23.09.18 um 21:20 schrieb Jan Tosovsky:
On 2018-09-18 Peter Nabbefeld wrote:
While JavaHelp might be licensed under AL2, it still suffers from UI
support.
What about some JavaHelp 3.0 (which probably needs a new name), building
on Lucene but with a replaceable GUI (probably based on Servo renderer)?
JavaHelp format is kind of standard, it can be produced by many tools. So
before inventing the new format we could just improve the client.
That's what I'd prefer, too, but that presumes, Oracle will relicense
JavaHelp, in which case e.g. the error handling (and logging) could be
improved.
Otherwise it may be necessary to use sth. else. In this case, it might
be sth. specific to the needs of NetBeans.
But I agree it is hard decision which technology to use:
Swing CSS support is poor
JavaFX is not part of JDK 11+ any more
So only viable option seem to be rewriting the client to some JavaScript based
Single Page App (it would read .jar and render it in same way as hsviewer, but
directly in a browser).
I've found sth. about a new HTML renderer called "Servo", developped by
Mozilla and Samsung, so I thought it to be a good idea, to propose it's
usage for a new UI. But I must admit, I definitely don't know anything
further, yet.
Kind regards
Peter
Jan
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