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Re: New to GNUStep


From: Quentin Mathé
Subject: Re: New to GNUStep
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 22:57:46 +0100

Le 22 déc. 04, à 15:40, Riccardo a écrit :

On Wednesday, December 22, 2004, at 02:17 PM, Chris Vetter wrote:

I wouldn't call a web browser "easy-to-do"... ;-)

I agree with master CBV here.

I think you have roughly 4 options
- use webkit stuff (ugly C++, KHTML, etc). Advantage: proven, up-to-date, standards compliant - write one from scatch in obj-c (hmmm don't ask me for help with the parser) - "port" an existing core to GNUstep. I could see 2 good candidates: Dillo and mMosaic. Both are fast, but support only plain HTML, no CSS. So it would make sense even on side a more evoluted but more demanding webkit browser. - convince omni people to give their old omniweb core (up to 4.1) away together with the kits needed under a good license. That would be a good thing and I would like to help to port it. I loved that browser...

Well… I would add one option which is to port Camino to GNUstep, Camino is just roughly Firefox written with Cocoa, but because it uses the Mozilla core it relies on Obj-C++, then the possibility to port it depends on GCC. Anyway when FSF GCC will support Obj-C++, I think it would be the best option because Camino works very well, is fast and fully compliant with web standards like Firefox, unless you want to write a radically new web browser…

http://www.mozilla.org/products/camino/

Quentin.

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Quentin Mathé
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