On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 6:45 PM H. Nikolaus Schaller <h...@goldelico.com> wrote:
> just for the records because it might look like a green field: > > we have a browser and a browser framework for quite a while. > > But currently nobody is working on them: > > http://www.gnustep.org/softwareindex/showdetail.php?app=8 > http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/SimpleWebKit We have an HTML viewer, and it's quite good at that. But it's not a browser, and should not be -- it's too much work for too little benefit, not to mention performance can only suffer. - Can it do 3d transforms? - Does it do WebRTC and WebGL? - Will I be able to access Outlook.com and Google Docs in it? - How well do web applications self-declare support for it? There are really good engines that support running web-based applications well. Yet even long-standing, reasonably well written engines such as Opera's Presto are being dropped. SWK fills a need for a performant HTML viewer, but is not a proper web browser engine. A good GNUstep browser would use an existing engine, but integrate with a GS-centric environment: - by using GNUstep's theme for its chrome, - by exposing GNUstep's Services in its textboxes and for its images, - by using GNUstep's save panels, by understanding the concept of bundles, - by storing its preferences and cache inside GNUstep's folder structure (~/GNUstep/), - by registering web shortcuts (e.g. .url files) with GNUstep's extension registry, - by using GS menus (whatever they are as configured by the user) and therefore by using GS-like keyboard shortcuts - in case we have a 'quit app quickly, but restore NSDocuments and its windows on start', integrate with that etc. Providing an alternate implementation for use by Vespucci seems useful.
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