Re: WebKit Bounty

[Chris B. Vetter]

On 3/2/07, Camille Bourgoin <monsieur.camille@gmail.com> wrote:
> In my opinion, a web framewok is absolutely essential. What is the

Yes.

> best solution ? Starting a Framework from scratch ? Using a preexistent
> lightweight engine ?

I honestly do not know what the best solution would be. However,
starting from scratch probably isn't as there already is work to draw
from.

The beauty of Objective-C is it's expandability. So I guess the best
way would be to write a browser application as a stand-alone (i.e.
WITHOUT a build-in WWW engine) providing just the basics, that is, a
window (with tabs) that holds the documents (i.e. web pages) and the
navigation bar. Everything else is implemented via "plugins."

That way, you could use an engine based, say, off libwww, while
another group works on porting WebKit, that can then replace the 'old'
engine, when it's done. You could even provide both and let the user
pick his preferred engine through a preference setting.

> I'm not a programmer (I'm a philosopher and I'm a poor beginner in
> sh/lisp/C/objective-c who learn a lot but can't doing nothing :(
> ), then I don't realize correctly the amount of work of porting a
> Framework like WebKit... Is the project unmanageable ?

I don't think so, but it will require a LOT of work.

--
Chris