On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 11:39 +0100, Unger Richard wrote: > Wow! Thanks for that detailed analysis! I certainly don't disagree with what > you're saying, however, from my point of view there are the following > considerations: > > * The software stacks you describe (webkit or svg based) would require quite > a bit of development and optimization to get running - I was hoping to get > soemthing done in my spare time (as soon as I get my PC running again, damn > hardware, grrr!) at home. Mozilla (in particular working with the GTK > backend, which would require mainly 'removing' X code) seemed like a 'fast > path' to the goal of a browser under dfb.
I looked at porting mozilla over awhile ago. It was over my head. I did however speak with some of the mozilla devs. They said, to be careful about porting it over as they were going to be moving towards a cairo backend, and so the gtk,X stuff would be come irrelevant. This is from my memory so could be hazy. However the reason I bring this up is that someone has been workin on getting a dfb cairo backend. Thus if you want to bring a browser into dfb, I would look into the cairo/mozilla and you may be done?... -- Nathanael D. Noblet Gnat Solutions http://www.gnat.ca/ T 250.385.4613 C 250.893.4613 _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
