Hey all,

2009/10/17 OvermindDL1 <[email protected]>:
>>> Why the requirement on QT though?  Why not just a platform dependent
>>> backend, on Windows it would certainly be quite simple (like 20 or 30
>>> lines of code, and I imagine it would be quite simple on Linux as
>>> well).
>>
>> Because I know Qt and the code is already platform dependent anyways.

<snip>

> I actually meant something along the lines of just including webkit
> itself (nothing else) and displaying it directly with a titlebar.  On
> Windows that would require very little code, as I think it would
> everywhere else too, just a single other cpp file with a unified
> header where the appropriate cpp file is compiled in (or put it all in
> one file with a macro to determine things based on the OS it is
> compiled on, the code is certainly short enough to do it this way
> too).

It is a valid point. In my opinion, the most important consideration
is ease of build: is it more easy to get webkit built and installed
rather than Qt? I do not know the answer, but I would suspect that
more people are more familiar with Qt (even if itself depends on its
own version of webkit?)?

Regards,
koen

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