Re: why gnustep doesn't have a browser for it?

[Zhang Weiwu]

David Chisnall wrote:
> There is a browser in Étoilé svn which works as you describe, by 
> simply taking a Gecko X11 view and reparenting it.  This is not a good 
> solution, however, because it means that things like text fields do 
> not have the same behaviour as other GNUstep text fields, buttons do 
> not look like GNUstep buttons, copy and paste / drag and drop do not 
> work in a GNUstep-friendly way and so on.
Is it better having a non-full fledged product than having no product 
for certain purpose, or worse?

I hope Étoilé release their browser soon and I'll try it first. I hope 
Étoilé has something for the users NOW during when gnustepers working 
hard to get a full feature browser engine that uses gnustep widgets. 
When a gnustep-widget based rendering engine is available, full feature 
and stable, Étoilé have no reason to not use that. For the moment I 
think Étoilé people are doing the right thing.
> If you look at any of the GTK/Qt browsers that use WebKit (for 
> example) you will notice that they all use a branch of WebKit which 
> uses the native toolkits for the rendering work.  There have been a 
> couple of efforts to port WebKit to GNUstep in the same way that it 
> has been ported to Qt, GTK, S60, Windows, and so on, but they are not 
> in a mature state (although Nicolas said he would take a look at 
> WebKit from this perspective at the hackathon next week, so we may 
> have some progress soon...)
Expecting good news!