Re: Question about html widget.

[Vadim Plessky <plessky cnt ru>]

On Saturday 15 March 2003 01:08, Havoc Pennington wrote:
|  On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:45:14PM -0500, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
|  > On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 15:28, Havoc Pennington wrote:
|  > >  - clearly the only really viable engines for *web browsing*
|  > >    (vs. limited lightweight use) are khtml and gecko.
|  > >    gecko is being split out into a library that will be more
|  > >    usable, khtml could be gtk-ported.
|  >
|  > BTW, it might be easier to port WebCore than KHTML.
|  >
|  > The reason is that Apple didn't port the KHTML code by modifying it
|  > directly; instead, they wrote replacements for a bunch of Qt/KDE classes
|  > (just enough to make the port work), and it should be relatively simple
|  > to port their replacement classes from Cocoa to GTK.
|  >
|  > It might be a cool hack for a hacker with some time in his/her hands...
|  >
|  > http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/index.html
|
|  For sure.  Forking khtml would be silly; if we use khtml, it should be
|  some kind of port that will be accepted upstream and shared with
|  apple/kde. Otherwise you just aren't getting enough critical mass to
|  have a chance of handling most web pages.

If someone wants to discuss such possibility/opportunity (KHTML port to GTK2, 
and code sharing in the future) - the right place to do so is 
<khtml-devel kde org> mailing list.

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