On 1/2/06, Mike Emmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep that will be intresting. I've also been doing a bit of campaining > to get XUL ported to WebKit which offers another viable approach > to rich xml apps. Also Nokia ported support for Mozilla plugins this is > supposed > to go open source soon if not already. I need to look a little deeper > at dashboard.
I looked at the soundbird project, trying to build something like iTunes using XML, and I'm not that impressed with all the hacks they had to do to get it working. > Its still pretty large I've not seen the numbers now but considering > the time factor for the port > its got to be similar to the open GTK port around 6 meg footprint. > The biggest size issue is it as and extensive QT emulation layer > still. Intresting if your want to support QT on top of GTK but not > really needed. I don't think this will last forever its one of the big > things apple want to remove and one of the main reasons that WebKit > and KHTML are now different projects. The QT layer is not that big, and as you said Apple is working on removing it. > I personally think WebKit is quite a viable browser today and its much > smaller then Mozilla. > Having trashed using LiTE for mozilla. For WebKit I think it would be > a good project. > I think I can get the current gtk port of Webkit to work very quickly > under directfb probably just a few days it not a big project. The earlier GTK-Nokia port is indeed up on their CVS depot, but I suspect you need to work on things in the WebKit layer as their port happened months ago, and the code base has moved on. I still think we should bypass the whole GTK level, it's a proof of concept but not a viable solution for an embedded system (Glib, memory hog, too many objects). --Kent _______________________________________________ directfb-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.directfb.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/directfb-dev
