Hi: --- Riccardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 29, 2006, at 09:29 AM, Chris Vetter wrote: > > > I beg to differ. Which framework(s) are you referring to regarding a > > web browser? > > Yes, there basically are 3 to pick from (libwww, Mozilla's engine and > > WebKit) but the first two would need wrapping and the latter is a PITA > > to port (I tried several times and got stuck due to references to Apple > > specific frameworks) plus the latter two are (currently) using GTK/GDK, > > which -- for me -- is a 'no go.' > > Actually what I meant is that gnustep-core is complete enough that you > could write a webbrowser from scratch. Despite what people think, it can > be done (iCab is a browser for macintosh written by two brothers, very > heavy-weight, it run on 68k for a long time, it supports javascript, > jscript and lately CSS is in the works too and mind, it is done in > classic mac and nowadays carbon, thus far more primitive stuff). There > is also a browser on windows wirten from scratch wich is reasonably nice. Just throwing an idea out here: would it be possible to bind directly to KHTML and skip the WebKit framework nightmare? [1] Speaking for myself alone, if we had a nice simple web browser, an R frontend, and a clever latex editor/project manager, I would be a happy camper. Cheers, Michael [1] I have never looked at the KHTML code so this might be an asinine suggestion. _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list Discuss-gnustep@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep