Hello, I'm interested too in such a port because I'm trying to render simple html (no plugins or widgets) into image and pdf backends. For the moment, I made a simple hack (inspired from Clutter project) to render into a cairo surface. It works from the command line but it still depends from X (and GTK) and I don't know where to begin to get rid of these dependencies.
Julien Le jeudi 22 mai 2008 à 09:30 -0700, Mike Emmel a écrit : > Luka I don't think it makes a difference if your running a lot of > thumbnails you would want to use gpu's some sort of render > farm arrangement. My port does it as a result of the design not > because of a strong desire to render with the cpu. > Also for real world web pages your going to have problems with plugins > which depend on X11 and native widget libraries. > > So although its possible with my port I can't see a single real > problem that can be solved with this approach. > Gtk/DirectFB will work for most pages if you have a flash port. Thats > the number one stumbling block. > I did my headless version of DirectFB for example to use the DirectFB > video provider for the media tags. > You can take other approaches but you would need to consider at a > minimum flash and the media tags. > For complete font support your going to have to use pango or go with > the QT port but the QT port gets you back > to the plugin issues if you don't use X11 and a lot of plugins use GTK so.... > > > As far as releasing I'm not in control of the release cycle except for > creating delays as I work on stuff :( > It should be released however some time this year. > > I obviously don't disagree with your idea in fact I worked hard to > ensure my approach was adaptable so it could be used for these types > of use cases so someday we will have what your looking for if things > go well. I actually designed it to work > with all the legacy use cases I mentioned but be flexible enough to > transparently drop them when replacements without the legacy X11/Gtk > dependencies become available. So soon a framework will be available > to allow you to reverse software > bloat but I've got no idea if software developers will accept it. I > built it to deal with the problems that occur with our new embedded > devices that have capabilities rivaling desktops where bloat is a huge > problem. The fact it can do what your asking makes me confident the > design is correct in fact it solves problems your not considering. > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Luka Napotnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Wow really? Could you share the port please. I've been looking for such > > a port to save the cairo painting to a PNG image. > > > > Greets, > > Luka > > > > Dne 22.05.2008 (čet) ob 07:41 -0700 je Mike Emmel zapisal(a): > >> I actually have a WebKit port with no dependencies but Cairo. > >> > >> > >> > >> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Luka Napotnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > Hello Mike. > >> > > >> > What I need is a WebKit port that is independent of any display server > >> > (X or a framebuffer). I only want to render the page to an image. And > >> > since cairo is a great graphics library I think It's a good start. > >> > > >> > Greets, > >> > Luka > >> > > >> > Dne 22.05.2008 (čet) ob 06:49 -0700 je Mike Emmel zapisal(a): > >> >> Use the GTK DirectFB backend. > >> >> > >> >> I have a memory only system that I really need to get into the trunk. > >> >> But if you have a graphics card in the system the fb0 will work. > >> >> > >> >> Its on my TODO to get the mem only system checked in and I can give > >> >> you a patch in the mean time if its a issue. Also you can use the vnc > >> >> driver > >> >> as a virtual framebuffer. > >> >> > >> >> Also some of the XServers should work in a similar way so you can > >> >> probably > >> >> play the same trick with the right X11 server. > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Luka Napotnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> >> wrote: > >> >> > Hello. > >> >> > > >> >> > I am interested in porting webkit to cairo for off-screen rendering > >> >> > without a X server. As I cannot find any documents about porting to > >> >> > other platform I would really appreciate if you could help me with > >> >> > some > >> >> > hints about porting webkit. > >> >> > > >> >> > Greets, > >> >> > Luka > >> >> > > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > >> >> > webkit-dev mailing list > >> >> > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > >> >> > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev