Thanks Holger for your clear explanation. And I found multiple frames started working in the latest release (some scrolling issues are there). Good news for GTK port.
If I am correct, WebKitGtkPage is a class which is synonymous to WebView of Mac. I think there are a lot of functions, signals, etc need to be added to WebKitGtkPage to make it as a full fledged WebView. Regarding image codec, for GTK port, I think we could use Gdk-pixbuf since it supports many image types (BMP, XBM, PNG, GIF, JPEG, etc). I think the only reason Gdk-Pixbuf is not used to make it work for (non GTK) Cairo or Qt platforms. Is that right? Best regards, Namaz Holger Freyther-6 wrote: > > > Am 13.08.2007 um 13:20 schrieb Namaz: > >> >> Hi All, >> >> There is an API layer in WebKit/Gtk folder (although it is not >> used by >> GdkLauncher presently). It provides the GObject interfaces for >> WebKitGtkFrame, WebKitGtkPage, etc. Great! > > GdkLauncher creates a WebKitGtkPage and is using that. So the API is > used by the GdkLauncher, the Openmoko RSS Reader, midori can use it > as well. > > >> >> + Any idea, what are all the advantages of using these kind of >> GObjects >> instead of C++ class interfaces (Frame, Page classes). > > Having a C/GObject API is great because you can easily bind it to > other languages (e.g. python)and it can be used by C Applications. > For some strange reasons most of the GNOME stack is still implemented > in C, so this is quite important. > > >> >> + And what classes are going to be added in future into this API >> layer as >> GObjects. > > We aim for implementing what WebView [1] on OS X is offering. So if > you have need some feature, we will take a look at WebView and > consider how to map it to the Gtk+/GObject world. > > > z. > > > [1] http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/WebKit/ > Classes/WebView_Class/Reference/Reference.html > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/API-layer-for-GTK-port-in-Web-kit-tf4260315.html#a12250915 Sent from the Webkit mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
