You are indeed right in saying that there are better options to use if only basic text rendering is desired. However, as I mentioned, the text rendering is just to start with. Obviously, the ultimate task will be to use other powerful features of the webkit browser engine. I am currently investigating the Webkit to get some insight into how it works and how it can be used. So my initial concern was related to JavaScript and ObjectiveC bindings that are generated through the generate-bindings.pl Perl script. The script takes IDL files as input and genertes corresponding C++ source and header files as JavaScript bindings. I was wondering why the files need to be generated after getting the source from SVN. Why do the generated files not part of the actual source? What is the concept behind generating these files explicility at my system. I hope you get my point. I want to be clear about relation between IDL, DOM and JavaScript bindings and the Perl script.

Regards,

J R Shah

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:45 PM, David Kilzer <ddkilzer@webkit.org> wrote:

WebKit is a full web browser engine (supporting JavaScript and rendering of HTML, XHTML, SVG, images and plug-ins), not just a simple HTML renderer (although it does that, too :).

If all you're looking for is a simple HTML renderer, there are probably better choices. See the thread entitled, "WebKit-GTK in embedded system" for more details (you didn't say which platform this was for, though):

https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2008-July/004503.html

Dave

On Thu, 8/7/08, Javed Rabbani <jrabbani@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am new to Webkit domain. I am initially trying to use
> Webkit to render a
> simple html text file with no graphics. I am confused with
> the IDL files
> that come with Webkit source. Why is there any need to
> generate JavaScript
> bindings via IDL files using Perl scripts. What I want to
> say is why
> these binding files are not part of the source? Everyone
> will be required to
> generate them on his system through the Perl script. If I
> am trying to
> render a plain text message, will I still need to generate
> these bindings in
> order to build successfully? Can I somehow skip these files
> to simplify the
> usage.
>
> Thanks,
> J R Shah