On 12/28/05, Unger Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi People!
>
> In an effort to keep this ball rolling I have created a (basically empty) 
> Wiki Page for the Idea:
>
> http://www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/DFBMozilla
>
> What would be the best way to proceed?
> Do we want to split the tasks in some way (I'd like to help)?
> Do we want to create a CVS module for this, or share code via patches?
>
> Eventually, I think the goal should be to integrate the code back into the 
> mozilla source tree as an officially supported backend, but it might be a bit 
> early for this now ;).
>
> Richard Unger
>

I'd suggest you first port it to GdkDirectfb this should be fairly
simple and useful.
Then port to LiTE

Mike

> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im Auftrag von Paulo Matias
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. Dezember 2005 23:57
> > An: DirectFB-Dev
> > Betreff: Re: [directfb-dev] Browsers under directfb?
> >
> >
> > > > Do you know if the widget stuff must be implemented or is
> > there some
> > > > generic widget code that uses the gfx backend? Hmm, but input...
> >
> > Take a look at the Photon (QNX) and Qt implementations. It
> > looks like the simpler widget implementations.
> >
> > Perhaps they implement only a generic widget (nsWidget or
> > nsCommonWidget), that receives events and sends it back to the Gecko.
> >
> > We must implement interfaces for things like Clipboard (should be
> > easy) and Drag'nDrop (fear), too.
> >
> > Don't fear about nsLookAndFeel, as it only have to return
> > colors and metrics that Gecko will use when drawing its own widgets.
> >
> > Perhaps nsFilePicker, present both in Qt and Photon
> > implementations, isn't needed at all, as Gecko has its own
> > fallback filepicker implementation.
> >
> > > Text rendering IMHO will be the hardest part, glyph handling, CSS
> > > style information... That and keeping multiple font glyphs
> > in memory
> > > at the same time.
> >
> > Take a look at gfx/*/ns*FontMetrics.cpp implementations.
> > Doesn't see to be so complex. Perhaps we only have to give to
> > Gecko the fontmetrics and a way to write the glyphs into the
> > screen, and they manage all the other things.
> >
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