I am working my way through getting pyjamas desktop going on Mac OS X. I had been using macports to install additional packages that do not come with Mac OS X, but gave up and I am using a much newer package tool called homebrew. Anyhow, my current build process is stuck at gobject-introspection, and this is due to some subtle linking issue. I am pursuing that issue through other routes.
While trying to build python bindings for GTK+, I did some google searches and found some comments here and there about wxWebKit. However I cannot find much useful information on wxWebKit. On the other hand, I was able to at least build wxPython 2.9.3.1 (that is needed for wxWebKit). In addition I found this note (below) for wxPython 2.9.3.0, and I am wondering how this approach differs from pythonwebkit? Is the work that would be needed for pyjamas desktop to use wxWebKit primarily needed for the bindings to the pyjamas "way of doing things" (whatever that might be) or is wxWebKit a fundamentally different approach from pythonwebkit? """ Added wrappers for new WebView classes which came from a successful Google Summer of Code project this year. This new module allows you to embed the platform's native HTML/CSS/Javascript rendering engine in a wx application like we've always been able to do with wx.webkit on Mac or with the various ActiveX modules that we've had for windows, except in the new version it uses the exact same API on all platforms and also provides an implementation for GTK. Currently on Windows the IE Trident engine is used, and WebKit is used on OSX and GTK. The code is organized to eventually allow alternate backend renderer implementations. The GTK version requires at least version 1.3.1 of libwebkitgtk-dev, which is the default on most of the recent Linux distributions. Please note that although these new classes and libraries are using names based on "WebView" I have put the wxPython verison of them in the wx.html2 module because the wxWebKit project already produces a wx.webview module for wxPython. """ Finally, at one point it had seemed to me that wxWidgets was more adept for developing cross platform GUIs that do not look like ugly transplanted windows from some ancient and foreign technology than GTK+, but maybe that is an incorrect assumption? --Jeff
