Re: GtkHtml 1, 2 and 1->2

[Radek Doulík <rodo ximian com>]

On Čt, 2002-04-11 at 15:34, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 11:51, Radek Doulík wrote:
> > It's pity that you didn't tell me about this disscussion, I will be glad
> > to join it :-(
> 
> Sorry about that.  There was really no formal planning for this
> discussion -- we just happened to be sitting at the same table in the
> GUADEC computer room and started talking about it.
> 
> Anyways, I believe Michael's intent with this mail was precisely to keep
> the discussion going and reach a consensus.
> 
> > >       * We agreed that adding editing was the most difficult part of 
> > >         making GtkHTML1 fly, and that adding it to GtkHTML2 is
> > >         extremely non-trivial.
> >
> > I am not so sure about this. The difficult parts have been to rewrite
> > previous broken editing implementation and design/implement UI (rather
> > time consuming task).
> 
> I.e., you are saying, the most difficult part was indeed implementing
> the editor.  :-)

No, what I am saying is that it could be possible to reuse big part of
editing code even with other "backend".

> >         * use gtkhtml2 as codebase
> >         * port editing (plus other features - I think this is what some
> >           people are forgetting about) to gtkhtml2. I think we could
> >           reuse whole component code, add editing functionality to
> >           gtkhtml2 widget.
> >         * implement missing features required by Evolution.
> 
> That sounds like a big chunk of work.  From Evolution's perspective
> starting the work again on GtkHTML2 would be suicidal.