Hello Julien. So you didn't draw the webkitview widget at all but stil managed to get a cairo drawing from the engine? If so, could you please tell me how did you do that?
Greets, Luka Dne 23.05.2008 (pet) ob 12:58 +0200 je Julien Sanchez zapisal(a): > 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 > > >
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