Re: WebKit

On 31 Juli, 16:09, Neil Madden <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mats wrote:

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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?

That seems excessive! I can't see that CSS rendering is particularly
more complex than the Tk canvas widget -- certainly not to justify
several orders of magnitude more code. Presumably there is a lot of
extra stuff in there?

Personally I would have hoped for tkhtml but that has reached a dead
end currently. Any voluntaries?

Has it? I haven't heard anything for a while, but last I looked TkHTML 3
was really quite impressive, and much more lightweight than Gecko or
WebKit. CVSTrac seems to show no activity since March, however.


Confirmed from Dan Kennedy :-(

Anyway, if you look at the Source snapshot at http://nightly.webkit.org/
which is just 8.8MB, go into
WebKit-*/WebKit/wx for instance, it doesn't look that awful. Have no
idea how wxWidgets work but judging from the code size it looks
manageable. But I have found zero docs of how the actual coding
interface to WebKit actually works. And no idea of any network
transport is included, likely not. My guess is that you just feed some
function with html is it is obtained from somewhere.

Mats
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