webkit subsystem for WebGadget

[CSAUER]

As subjected, I would prefer to have a option to select the subsystem "webkit" for web-rendering. This is open source and available on all PB supported platforms as well as it is much growing and ACID3 conform.

With this together I would like to see a enhanced access and control of the content of the WebGadget.

Best Regards
CSAUER

[Seymour Clufley]

I've taken a look at the WebKit website but I can't work out how having it implemented in PB would improve the situation.

What benefits would PB programmers have if the webgadget was powered by WebKit?

[Mistrel]

Probably for this same reason.

http://www.purebasic.fr/english/viewtopic.php?t=31403

[Fred]

WebKit is way too big and too complex to be compiled and integrated in PureBasic.

[CSAUER]

They get it run on mobile devices like iPhone, Android, NOKIA S60 series, etc. Additional it will be implemented into Qt 4.4 and GNOME, Epiphany. I think market share will grow significant within next 12 months and is passes already ACID, ACID2 and ACID3.

I thought it is lightweight, if it runs on mobile devices. Shouldn't it be possible?
Maybe we can access natively a precompiled library we can download from webkit sources, we just need an standardized interface to the lib integrated into PB. This would ensure a always proofed rendering.

Actually you cannot ensure how it looks like on your customers computer, as it depends on OS and browser version.

Maybe this is a topic for the next mayor release... :roll:

[Rescator]

Isn't Webkit a suite of tech?
I suspect that when peeps say Webkit they assume the whole thing.
A PB lib with just the Webkit layout engine and some hooks to allow PB code to react/act so the behavior would not be that different from the current Webgadget would be great as control/interaction would be higher, no dependency on atl.dll (luckily this is installed on W2K and later by default though) would make it interesting.

What I suggest is that somebody here take a look at Webkit, find out what minimum of includes/source files are needed to turn it into a PB lib and add functionality needed to emulate/improve upon what the current Webgadget has. Then hand it to the PureBasic team and say "see? it's possible and not that big" Do that and Fred and Co. might change their mind!

I have no idea how big Webkit is or how big the Webkit layout engine etc is either. But I'm guessing a few MB? So obviously very small apps may not want to use it, but medium and larger apps might.

[Trond]

WebKit for GTK is very easy to use from PB Linux. You just use it like a normal GTK widget.

[Seymour Clufley]

But of what benefit would it be for us, programming?

[Trond]

Example: (you need webkit-gtk)

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ProcedureC quit()
  gtk_main_quit_()
EndProcedure

ImportC "/usr/local/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so"
  webkit_web_view_new()
  webkit_web_view_open(webview.l, *uri.l)
EndImport


gtk_init_(0, 0)

window = gtk_window_new_(#GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
gtk_window_set_title_(window, "PureBrowser")
gtk_widget_set_name_(window, "PureBrowser")
gtk_window_set_default_size_(window, 800, 600)
g_signal_connect_data_(window, "destroy", @quit(), 0, 0, 0)

scrolled_window = gtk_scrolled_window_new_(0, 0)
gtk_scrolled_window_set_policy_(scrolled_window, #GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC, #GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC)

web_view = webkit_web_view_new ()
gtk_container_add_(scrolled_window, web_view)

gtk_container_add_(window, scrolled_window)

webkit_web_view_open(web_view, @"http://www.google.com/")

gtk_widget_show_all_(window)
gtk_main_()

[Seymour Clufley]

Trond, I'd like to try out the code you posted, so I downloaded the WebKit GTK for Windows. It doesn't contain the "libwebkit-1.0.so" file you specify.

I don't know if this is because the .so file is for a different platform, or because it is obsolete (you posted the code last April!).

Can you tell me what file I should use on Windows?

[Trond]

It's a source package that must be compiled first. Webkit for Windows isn't really usable without a lot of effort yet.