Re: KHTML in GNUStep?

[Philippe C.D. Robert]

Hi,

one more issue here is that if GNUstep wants to remain as close to MOSX as
possible then it should be considered to come up with a free version of the
WebCore framework - I suspect this will be used heavily in many projects.
Richard Dale wrote a few days ago on kde.news:

I have done Objective-C wrappers for the KHTML classes (via C bindings, not 
calling C++ directly as you could with Apple Objective-C++). They in the cvs 
under kdebindings/kdeobjc. I haven't had time to generate the Objective-C 
bindings for a while, but I should have some time to do it soon. Maybe 
extracting the KHTML Objective-C classes into a separate cocoa compatible 
framework could be a useful project?

-Phil

On 16 Jan 2003, Stefan [ISO-8859-1] B�hringer wrote:
> I don't know about what API KHTML offers, however, the way GNUstep
> should probably handle HTML was discussed before.
> In GNUstep the Text System (will) offer all the functionality needed to
> display sophisticated HTML. All that is needed is a proper HTML parser,
> which also is capable of doing the layout.
> This brings me back to my promise of implementing the HTML parser. Due
> to lack of time only a skeleton is finished now, which recognizes basic
> text attributes (bold, italic and the like). Perhaps I should submit now
> to let others participate.
> The only major thing needed, as far as I can see, is table support. I
> would volunteer to implement this as well, since I have prior art to
> stem on. However, I cannot promise anything here.
> 
> The second major thing is an internal API in GNUstep which supports
> parsing of layouts rather than of attributed string. Nothing has been
> devised so far. This is certainly a necessity for GNUstep since many
> interesting text formats support more complex texts than can be
> represented by attributed strings.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
>       Stefan
> 
> On Wed, 2003-01-15 at 14:52, thomas@customercd.com wrote:
> > What would be entailed in creating a functional equivalent to KHTML using 
> > pure
> > objective-C ?
> > 
> > -Thomas Cherryhomes / OpenMINDS Research
> > 
> > 
> [...]
> 
> 
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