Re: GNUstep Web browser (was Re: WebKit Bounty)

[Riccardo]

Hi,

On Friday, March 2, 2007, at 09:29 PM, hns@computer.org wrote:

> I think it is worth to mention SimpleWebKit here - a rough
> implementation of
> WebView, WebFrame, WebFrameView, WebDataSource etc. - completely
> written
> in Objective-C without any C++. The reason is that it must cross-
> compile
> on gcc 2.95.3 for some ARM processors.

I think it is a pretty good idea. If done well it should end up in a 
cleaner implementation than apple's and also more manageable. Of course 
it will never reach the completeness of WebKit, since even WebKit pales 
compared to Gecko. But it could end up being more portable, more 
efficient and what is good even a good option since you say ti is a 
reimplementation. As I read it, one browser could use one or the other 
without big effort.
It could be used in a light-browser as well as in applications were an 
embedded HTML/XHTML engine is needed.

Of course it should en handling real-world pages decently, but before 
worrying of that (links does it and even dillo improved a little) it 
should display correct pages correctly. The rest is added "burden" 
actually.

Would you consider signing FSF and making it LGPL available in gnustep?

-Ric