David Chisnall wrote:
There is a browser in Étoilé svn which works as you describe, by
simply taking a Gecko X11 view and reparenting it. This is not a good
solution, however, because it means that things like text fields do
not have the same behaviour as other GNUstep text fields, buttons do
not look like GNUstep buttons, copy and paste / drag and drop do not
work in a GNUstep-friendly way and so on.
Is it better having a non-full fledged product than having no product
for certain purpose, or worse?
I hope Étoilé release their browser soon and I'll try it first. I hope
Étoilé has something for the users NOW during when gnustepers working
hard to get a full feature browser engine that uses gnustep widgets.
When a gnustep-widget based rendering engine is available, full feature
and stable, Étoilé have no reason to not use that. For the moment I
think Étoilé people are doing the right thing.
If you look at any of the GTK/Qt browsers that use WebKit (for
example) you will notice that they all use a branch of WebKit which
uses the native toolkits for the rendering work. There have been a
couple of efforts to port WebKit to GNUstep in the same way that it
has been ported to Qt, GTK, S60, Windows, and so on, but they are not
in a mature state (although Nicolas said he would take a look at
WebKit from this perspective at the hackathon next week, so we may
have some progress soon...)
Expecting good news!
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