On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:42 PM, James Carthew <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

I don't think webkit uses Cocoa textview's text tables--webkit does the
layout itself.


>
> 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
>> > Member of the Free Software Foundation
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>> >
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