Porting an OSX web browser has been considered in the past. It has not been
completed because things such as text tables are not yet implemented within
GNUstep.

On 7 December 2015 at 12:05, ChanMaxthon <[email protected]> wrote:

> Crazy idea for this: port the OS X version of Chromium or Firefox over?
> That should already been modified to use Cocoa and we just need to provide
> all its dependencies. The same applies for Apple's version of WebKit on
> which a clone of Safari can be built.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Dec 7, 2015, at 08:53, Svetlana A. Tkachenko <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >> Now as a desktop user who would like to run GUNstep full time, I have
> to ask, has anyone actually started making chromium embedded embed into a
> gnustep window?
> >> I used Mantella in the past and I was happy with it. Mantella was this
> exact idea with firefox. Unfortunately the interface to firefox they used
> was deprecated.
> >
> > About "embedding" Chromium or Firefox - I do not mind embedding the
> > stuff rendered by the engine (WebKit/Gecko), but I would not, as a
> > matter of personal preference, recommend to port over the Chromium's or
> > Firefox's interface. For UX consistency I would prefer the interface to
> > be in GNUStep things. I hope we are getting there one way or another. :)
> >
> > --
> > Svetlana A. Tkachenko
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