Re: WebKit

On 30 Juli, 22:32, USCode <d...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mats wrote:
Has anyone thought of doing, or actually done something with WebKit?
I think that could be an incredible and complete tk widget for
rendering html/css
but I haven't looked at its API or its code.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit
http://webkit.org/

Mats

I also think this would be an *awesome* Tk extension and asked about
this sometime back.  Per Donal, it appears that maybe the integration
with Tk's event loop might present some issues:http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.tcl/browse_thread/thread/b41...

Googling for TkGecko shows some interesting stuff.
Seems to have been a very early attempt http://www.usenix.org/event/tcl00/full_papers/ball/ball_html/
which is now dead (?). Also sponsored by Eolas. Did they gave up at
some point in time and put their money on a standalone widget
(tkhtml)?

Seems Gecko in itself was (is?) a dead end and WebKit is the one that
has achieved broadest support.
Tested to download the WebKit sources but the .bz2 archive is 286MB!
Perhaps it is just a fact to accept that html/css rendering is a
complex business and we have to accept its weight?
Personally I would have hoped for tkhtml but that has reached a dead
end currently. Any voluntaries?

Mats

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