Am 14.12.2012 17:50, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2012 13:22:28 +0100 > Sönke Ludwig <[email protected]> wrote: > >> It also doesn't seem to be ported to the mobile platforms, >> which makes it an uncertain development target. >> > > Don't the mobile platforms provide web-view components anyway? Or does > all the sandboxing on them prevent loading one up with a file:/// url? >
They do (Windows and Mac OS in fact do, too), but then you have to support multiple browser engines with different APIs. The level of control can also be quite limited (or cumbersome to achieve) for some applications. Having a single engine with the same behavior across all platforms would be nice to have. But the most important point (for me) is that the web-view controls do not support off-screen rendering, so you have to use the native UI framework, which further reduces the possible code reuse and flexibility.
