[webkit-dev] Hopefully new developer

[Nilesh Patil]

HI

With what i understood from ur talk and considering u r working on Gtk port - >

U want to build Webkit as engine -> It is built as shared lib in Gtk
port. U can comment GtkLauncher (or WebKitTools/GNUmakaefile.am) in
your parent make file.
This will not build GtkLauncher. In turn u now have only Library or
engine that would do rest of things for You. Then, u can write your
own program (just like GtkLauncher, for reference u can have a look at
WebKitTools/GtkLauncher/main.c) which will create and xpose
WebKitWebview pointer to this lib where all Html
will be drawn. Thisway webkit engine is seperate from GUI.

> from the GUI?  I want to create something like WebKitGtk or WebKitQT but we
> of course would call it our WebKitTalk or something.  We do have x windows
> on the device but if WebKit can run just as the engine we could remove X win
> from the device totally and just use WebKit as our web engine and create our
> own method of rendering the data.  As you might imagine we don't really care
> to much about pictures even though for web correctness we have to put in the
> graphic links and alt tags and stuff.

I hope i got u correct on this -> U really dont need to care about
this rendering part. Dont even think about modifying it unless
essential. It is very comprehensive and
calable of handling html very well. Also u r not very specific abtou
wht u need. That adds up to problem. So in short i dont understand why
u need to care about rendering engine. It will be tweaked only if u
want something like native widget support in your application.

Thanks & Regards
Niilesh

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:27 AM, ken perry <bro.ken.aph at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am working on a new PDA for the blind.  We run OE linux, and our GUI is
> wrote in python using a python widget UI toolkit that speaks and brailles to
> braille displays.  What I need to know is is WebKit engine seperate fully
> from the GUI?  I want to create something like WebKitGtk or WebKitQT but we
> of course would call it our WebKitTalk or something.  We do have x windows
> on the device but if WebKit can run just as the engine we could remove X win
> from the device totally and just use WebKit as our web engine and create our
> own method of rendering the data.  As you might imagine we don't really care
> to much about pictures even though for web correctness we have to put in the
> graphic links and alt tags and stuff.
>
> So with that said if WebKit engine is seperate from the GUI does anyone have
> a starting point for me or do I just  need to go directory by directory
> through the WebKitGtk and create my own set of bindings.  Like is there an
> API document I am missing some where.
>
> I have the WebKit source in a directory on my Linux box but I am just
> wondering the quickest way to get started.  Also if anyone knows of someone
> already making a text based web browser like Lynx  in Linux with WebKit that
> would be good source code for me to look at.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions are welcome.
>
> Ken
>
> _______________________________________________
> webkit-dev mailing list
> webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
>
>