On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 9:13 AM Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri <barbi...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 11:17 AM, Vincent Torri <vincent.to...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I want to add to my small multi doc viewer the possibility to read
> > epub or chm files. Those are html + css files (at least for epub,
> > maybe no css for chm). What I can use is :
> >
> >  * webkit (can it gives an image of the content ?
> >  * gecko  (same question)
> >  * servo (idem)
>
> usually these offer a way to render to image, with webkit-efl being
> one that offers you an Evas_Object which internally contains an
> Evas_Object_Image, but can also offer a snapshot to a buffer.
>
> but they are very, very heavy in memory and deps. Current WebKit is
> based on WK2 multiprocess system, which creates at least +2 process
> (WebProcess for HTML/JS/CSS and NetworkProcess for I/O).
>
> gecko/servo/cef (chromium/blink) all would need to run in a second
> process so you don't need to integrate with efl/main loop.
>

gecko is not embeddable.

servo+cef use the same embedding api and both integrate asynchronously with
the main loop. cef works using a pixel buffer provider, while servo
provides a zero copy gl rendering extension for the cef api.

I would recommend using something smaller than a full web engine if
possible.
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