Re: [dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

2010-11-15 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:40 +0100, "Jens Staal" wrote: > Just found this as well. Perhaps interesting, perhaps not... > > http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Main/News&entry=2010-10-27-0.dok Webkit/DirectFB eh? Sorry for the late reply, I just wanted to say it's been a while since I talked to a

Re: [dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

2010-11-08 Thread Jens Staal
Just found this as well. Perhaps interesting, perhaps not... http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Main/News&entry=2010-10-27-0.dok 2010/10/22 Paul Onyschuk : > What about EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) Webkit? It isn't so > feature rich as Chromium or Webkit-gtk, but it's getting ther

Re: [dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

2010-10-22 Thread Paul Onyschuk
What about EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) Webkit? It isn't so feature rich as Chromium or Webkit-gtk, but it's getting there with Samsung pumping money. There are some desired features [1] on their roadmap, which seems interesting: - Remove strict X11 dependency, allowing DirectFB and F

Re: [dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

2010-10-22 Thread John Matthewman
On 10/22/10, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:02:00AM +, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: >> I'd like a Surf interface to Dillo or NetSurf, without any JavaScript >> support. You only need to interpret JavaScript on web pages that suck. >> The suckless part of the web is quite usabl

Re: [dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

2010-10-22 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:02:00AM +, Bjartur Thorlacius wrote: > On 10/20/10, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > > On 20 October 2010 11:19, Nick wrote: > >> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:06 +0100, "Nick" wrote: > >>> I wonder, has anyone looked at Hubbub/LibCSS, the HTML & CSS rendering > >>> libraries of N

Re: [dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

2010-10-22 Thread Bjartur Thorlacius
On 10/20/10, Anselm R Garbe wrote: > On 20 October 2010 11:19, Nick wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:06 +0100, "Nick" wrote: >>> I wonder, has anyone looked at Hubbub/LibCSS, the HTML & CSS rendering >>> libraries of NetSurf? I gave them the briefest of glances today, and >>> they look pretty ni

Re: [dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

2010-10-20 Thread Moritz Wilhelmy
Excerpts from Wolf Tivy's message of Thu Oct 21 01:15:26 +0200 2010: > IIRC, chromium is friendlier to static linking, being mostly static already. > Is ths correct? I think it's dynamically linked but ships it's own libraries (at least the pre-built version on linux)

Re: [dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

2010-10-20 Thread Wolf Tivy
> Instead of going the NetSurf route, I would suggest to re-use the > chromium source code, even if it's much more monstrous than webkitgtk. > surf could become a headless chromium where each surf window behaves > exactly like a chromium tab (+ some dashboard surf window on demand > like for downl

Re: [dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

2010-10-20 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 20 October 2010 11:19, Nick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:06 +0100, "Nick" wrote: >> I wonder, has anyone looked at Hubbub/LibCSS, the HTML & CSS rendering >> libraries of NetSurf? I gave them the briefest of glances today, and >> they look pretty nice. They're certainly *a lot* smaller and

Re: [dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

2010-10-20 Thread Nick
On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 10:06 +0100, "Nick" wrote: > I wonder, has anyone looked at Hubbub/LibCSS, the HTML & CSS rendering > libraries of NetSurf? I gave them the briefest of glances today, and > they look pretty nice. They're certainly *a lot* smaller and simpler > than WebkitGTK. Sorry, forgot per

[dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

2010-10-20 Thread Nick
So, we all know that Webkit is a mess, and GTK+ for that matter. However, WebkitGTK does a reasonable job of rendering the mess of the modern web, hence surf using it. I wonder, has anyone looked at Hubbub/LibCSS, the HTML & CSS rendering libraries of NetSurf? I gave them the briefest of glances t