Re: WebKit

On 31 Juli, 14:30, Mats <mats...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Googling for TkGecko shows some interesting stuff.
Seems to have been a very early attempthttp://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

Update: there seems to be a source tree at http://nightly.webkit.org/
which is just 8MB. It seems to include a lot of sources including
the gtk, mac, Qt, win, and wxWidgets backends.

Mats
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