On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 07:33:19PM +0200, Michael Thaler wrote: > > Because of lack of developer resources. Browser is a huge and complex > > project by itself. Second, it's really hard to implement such complex > > project as web browser that based on incomplete and buggy application kit. > > You don't have to implement the whole browser yourself. Just take some > existing rendering engine and build a user interface around it. I guess > webkit > would be the obvious choice. There are projects doing this for KDE: > > http://rekonq.sourceforge.net/ > http://code.google.com/p/arora/ > > I think at least rekonq is a hobby project of a single person. But you are > right, it is probably still a lot of work, especially because there is > nothing > like QtWebkit which these browsers use.
Or how about porting Camino (http://caminobrowser.org/)? Which is a Cocoa wrapper around the mozilla (gecko) rendering engine; and since the release version still supports OSX 10.3, the necessary API burden is not too great (the development branch requires OSX 10.4). .pdf _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
