Thanks for your reply, Brent ! Still a few more questions though ....
- are there sample applications somewhere with XCode & MSVC projects ? I'm a reasonably trained programmer, but I really fear setting up makefiles and workspaces. I recently spent half a week just to link an application to the SDL library, which is a lot simpler than WebKit I assume. Somehow I see myself giving up on things that are fairly trivial once one has a working, compilable example ! I've been browsing the web for WebKit samples, but really good ones seem very rare :-( - are apple licenses very though on open source academic projects ? - i have zero knowledge of cocoa & objC, which is why I was hoping to use Carbon. But I realize that carbon is a dead-end and I have to go with the flow sooner or later. With the SDL application that I was talking about, I managed to grab the SDL XCode sample project and work my way around objC code. Since all I want to do with this next project is simply a wrapper around webkit, I think that with a working example I might get a long way. Or am I mistaken ? thanks ! jeroen > 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
