On Jun 7, 2005, at 5:13 PM, Kevin Ollivier wrote:
First off, I wanted to say I'm really impressed with Apple's
commitment to open source. IMHO, the actions you've taken go above
and beyond the call of duty and show an openness that few companies
are willing to risk.
Thanks for saying so. I think all the great testing and code
submissions we have been getting will really help people at Apple and
other companies to understand the strength of the open source
development model.
However, I do have more to say than that. :-) Vaclav Slavik (the
author of wxWidgets' wxHTML support, among many other things) and I
have embarked on a rather ambitious project, which is the
development of a wxWidgets implementation of WebCore. I do recall
one of the developers saying they'd be open to/interested in a
multi-platform WebCore. ;-) We'd also like to develop an ActiveX
front end as well, so that apps outside of wxWidgets apps on
Windows can take advantage of WebCore. We've been working on it for
a couple weeks now and we have setup a SVN repository for it at:
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/wxwebcore
We've still got a long ways to go, but we've gotten a fair amount
of files compiling these past couple weeks (both on Mac and Linux)
and hope within a month or so that we can move towards a basic
prototype.
Hey, that's great news. We're definitely interested in ports to other
platforms, and we'll be working to restructure our tree to make this
feasible. We want to make kwq into a true multiplatform porting layer
which can adapt to multiple operation systems and GUI toolkits.
Related to this project, I had a couple questions for WebKit
developers:
1) We have a patch for JSCore 412 that includes some simple
compilation fixes like added headers and such to get it to compile
on Linux. Are you interested in this, and if so, do we just submit
it to the WebKit bugzilla?
Sure, we'd love to see these changes. The very best way to do it
would be to file an appropriate bug in bugzilla, attach a patch, and
send email to webkit-changes when it's ready for review. If the patch
is large and covers multiple separate issues, then splitting it would
help a lot.
2) Is the WebKit site and mailing list going to be the primary
discussion and project space for WebCore as well now? As WebKit is
a superset, I wasn't sure if this was more appropriate here, or if
WebCore's discussion forum was a more appropriate place.
Yes, this list is going to be the main forum for discussion of
WebKit, WebCore and JavaScriptCore development.
Anyways, the newly open-sourced WebKit will definitely help us in
our implementation, and I hope that our work can be useful to the
WebKit development team as well. It will certainly be of great
benefit to the wxWidgets project!
Cool, we sure hope it helps, and we'd totally be happy to see your
work in our tree.
Regards,
Maciej
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