Hi Jeroen, On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:10 AM, jeroen clarysse <[email protected]> wrote: > my questions however were : > - is webkit intended to be part of a non-web-based application ? Can I write > an app that looks nothing at all like a browser, and simply displays an > internal, locked, webpage ?
Yes. Applications like iTunes are built this way. Several other applications are using WebKit internally. > - can I load local data into that webpage ? My experiments are local files, > opened, edited and saved on the users harddisk Yes. > - is it possible to launch my runtime (with that local file), from my > webkit-based application ? It depends on how the runtime works. WebKit can be embedded in your application, so the application could invoke the runtime as well as host the WebKit environment. > - can I do this cross-platform on mac & windows ? Yes. Mac contains WebKit as a core system component, so you don't have to ship it. On Windows you have to use the WinCairo port (or look into Chromium) to redistribute without violating Apple licenses. > - am i being silly and should I stick to my own custom-drawn code, and port > that to Carbon ? Don't use the Carbon UI toolkit -- it's deprecated and won't let you build 64-bit applications. I think your approach sounds totally feasible, but will require you to maintain different application frames around WebKit. The internal JavaScript/HTML/CSS will of course be cross-platform. -Brent _______________________________________________ webkit-help mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-help
