Re: Plans for ahead

[Nicolas Roard]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:42 PM, James Carthew <jcarthew@gmail.com> wrote:

Porting an OSX web browser has been considered in the past. It has not been completed because things such as text tables are not yet implemented within GNUstep.

I don't think webkit uses Cocoa textview's text tables--webkit does the layout itself.

 

On 7 December 2015 at 12:05, ChanMaxthon <xcvista@me.com> wrote:

Crazy idea for this: port the OS X version of Chromium or Firefox over? That should already been modified to use Cocoa and we just need to provide all its dependencies. The same applies for Apple's version of WebKit on which a clone of Safari can be built.

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On Dec 7, 2015, at 08:53, Svetlana A. Tkachenko <svetlana@members.fsf.org> wrote:

>> Now as a desktop user who would like to run GUNstep full time, I have to ask, has anyone actually started making chromium embedded embed into a gnustep window?
>> I used Mantella in the past and I was happy with it. Mantella was this exact idea with firefox. Unfortunately the interface to firefox they used was deprecated.
>
> About "embedding" Chromium or Firefox - I do not mind embedding the
> stuff rendered by the engine (WebKit/Gecko), but I would not, as a
> matter of personal preference, recommend to port over the Chromium's or
> Firefox's interface. For UX consistency I would prefer the interface to
> be in GNUStep things. I hope we are getting there one way or another. :)
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