nanogui: WebKit based browser for Nano-X
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Re: [nanogui] WebKit based browser for Nano-X
From:
"Georg Potthast" ####@####.####
Date:
14 Dec 2014 20:08:41 -0000
Message-Id: <DF8EAFABDFC046049C919269E4CDD979@SCHREIBTISCHGP>
I made a tiny Linux distro called Nanolinux which includes the Dillo browser. https://sourceforge.net/projects/nanolinux/
This distro uses NXlib and FLTK instead of X11 and GTK. I wanted to have a better browser for this distro replacing the Dillo browser so I started with the NetRider project. Also I thought it would be a good thing to have an FLTK GUI for WebKit in addition to GTK and Qt.
Lauri and I started out about the same time with our FLTK browser projects not knowing of each others plans. Now our projects run in parallel. Even though we both use FLTK the projects are quite different.
One difference I see is that the webkit library I made is platform independent while he uses FLTK within his webkit library. So I could make an SDL test application that uses my webkit library and as I mentioned a nano-X GUI could be made as well.
Georg
----- Original Message -----
From: Talmai Oliveira
To: Georg Potthast
Cc: ####@####.#### ; Greg Haerr
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2014 4:40 PM
Subject: Re: [nanogui] WebKit based browser for Nano-X
This is awesome. I remember (many many years back) trying to get something similar to this to work on a specific platform, but unable to build all dependencies. Eventually, we just moved on...
Just for clarification, could you explain the background of this project? And where is it being used, or what's driving the development efforts? Just overall curious.
How does your project compare against other efforts, such as https://github.com/clbr/webkitfltk
Thanks
On Sunday, December 14, 2014, Georg Potthast ####@####.#### wrote:
I made an FLTK GUI frontend for WebKit. My browser is called NetRider and can be downloaded here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/netrider/
Since FLTK can run on NXlib I also got my NetRider browser to work with NXlib/nano-X.
I do not have plugins working yet, but the rendering is very good and there is Javascript support.
In this project, WebKit is compiled into a shared library. This library does not depend on FLTK or X11.
So it would be possible to write a GUI frontend using just Nano-X too.
Georg
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