On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Adam Barth <aba...@webkit.org> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Peter Kelly <kelly...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 23/10/2011, at 10:58 PM, Eric Seidel wrote: >>> This is the wrong list for this question. webkit-help is a better >>> choice for these topics. >>> >>> There is no free-to-distribute version of WebKit for windows to my >>> knowledge. Apple's windows version (the DLLs from the nightly) >>> requires non-redistributable libraries from Apple. Making it >>> il-suited for use with 3rd-party applications. >> >> It seems there are a lot of people who wish to embed WebKit in their >> applications, but this is not simple to do on any platform I'm aware of at >> the moment (correct me if I'm wrong). Given the prominence of the project >> and the number of potential use cases for it, It seems to me that it would >> be nice to have something that anyone can easily distribute as part of their >> app, as they can do with pretty much every other open source library out >> there (think SQLite and libxml, which are used by many applications). >> >> I myself am developing an application which embeds WebKit and have found it >> a huge amount of effort to integrate because of its current state. In my >> case I am developing for Android, but need to use a custom build to include >> some bug fixes which affect my application. This has involved porting the >> Android fork of the Chromium fork of WebKit to build under the NDK, which is >> not possible natively due to it's reliance on private APIs. Once I have it >> working I plan to release the port publicly (both due to the LGPL >> requirements and to help others who may wish to do the same thing). I also >> may wish to port my application to windows in the future. > > The situation with respect to the Chromium Android flavor of WebKit > should improve with time. Folks are in the process of getting that > working directly in WebKit trunk. Once that's done, you should be > able to build and run WebKit on Android with the NDK and no extra > magic. > >> While I understand that Apple and Google's priorities for WebKit lie in >> their respective browsers and OS APIs, perhaps there might others in the >> open source community and those working on various ports who would be >> willing to participate in an effort to make an easily-redistributable >> library of the nature that Atena was suggesting. I would certainly be >> willing to contribute to such an effort. >> >> If I was to start a project to make this happen, and get enough interest >> from others, would it be possible to do this as part of the mainline webkit >> development tree? > > I believe both the Qt and GTK ports of WebKit have this as one of > their goals (though neither supports Android, as far as I'm aware). > If you're interested in contributing in that direction, you might want > to chat with folks on #webkit-gtk to see what needs to be done.
I think the Qt port of WebKit should work pretty ok on Win7 but yes we don't support Android. #qtwebkit is also an alternative. > > Brent Fulgham also has a similar goal for the WinCairo port. If > you're interested in seeing this happen on Windows, you might want to > chat with him. > > Adam > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > -- Alexis Menard (darktears) Software Engineer INdT Recife Brazil _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
