Re: Proposed external dependency: WebKit/GTK+

[Martin Soto <soto informatik uni-kl de>]

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 21:48 -0500, Matthew Barnes wrote:
> Anyone know the status of WebKit's GObject-based editing API?  That's
> the main thing keeping Evolution from putting a bullet in GtkHtml.  I'm
> hesitant to ship a release with both WebKit and GtkHtml dependencies
> (the former for rendering, the latter for editing).

The first step is to have DOM support in WebKitGtk. An initial patch is
available [1] but it has a number of problems that must still be fixed
in order for it to land. If you look at the discussion in the referenced
bug, you'll see that I offered to take a look at (some of) the problems,
but the reality is that I've been very busy during the last weeks and
haven't been able to do much. I still hope to be able to deliver
something in the following weeks, but if anyone beats me to it, I won't
complain.

Cheers,

M. S.

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16401