I made a tiny Linux distro called Nanolinux which includes the Dillo browser. 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/nanolinux/

This distro uses NXlib and FLTK instead of X11 and GTK. I wanted to have a 
better browser for this distro replacing the Dillo browser so I started with 
the NetRider project. Also I thought it would be a good thing to have an FLTK 
GUI for WebKit in addition to GTK and Qt.

Lauri and I started out about the same time with our FLTK browser projects not 
knowing of each others plans. Now our projects run in parallel. Even though we 
both use FLTK the projects are quite different.

One difference I see is that the webkit library I made is platform independent 
while he uses FLTK within his webkit library. So I could make an SDL test 
application that uses my webkit library and as I mentioned a nano-X GUI could 
be made as well.

Georg
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Talmai Oliveira 
  To: Georg Potthast 
  Cc: nanogui@linuxhacker.org ; Greg Haerr 
  Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 4:40 PM
  Subject: Re: [nanogui] WebKit based browser for Nano-X


  This is awesome. I remember (many many years back) trying to get something 
similar to this to work on a specific platform, but unable to build all 
dependencies. Eventually, we just moved on...


  Just for clarification, could you explain the background of this project? And 
where is it being used, or what's driving the development efforts? Just overall 
curious.


  How does your project compare against other efforts, such as 
https://github.com/clbr/webkitfltk


  Thanks 

  On Sunday, December 14, 2014, Georg Potthast <mail...@georgpotthast.de> wrote:

    I made an FLTK GUI frontend for WebKit. My browser is called NetRider and 
can be downloaded here:
    https://sourceforge.net/projects/netrider/

    Since FLTK can run on NXlib I also got my NetRider browser to work with 
NXlib/nano-X.

    I do not have plugins working yet, but the rendering is very good and there 
is Javascript support.

    In this project, WebKit is compiled into a shared library. This library 
does not depend on FLTK or X11.
    So it would be possible to write a GUI frontend using just Nano-X too.

    Georg 

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