[webkit-dev] WebKit-GTK in embedded system
Maciej Stachowiak
mjs at apple.com
Wed Jul 23 14:11:45 PDT 2008
On Jul 23, 2008, at 8:17 AM, John Boncek wrote:
>
> <Sending again now that I am subscribed -- sorry if you receive a
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> In an embedded ARM-based system with Linux and GTK, we are
> investigating the
> use of WebKit for HTML display. Web browsing is not needed. Our
> core goal
> for WebKit will be to read, parse, and display HTML files that
> contain text
> and static images. Is the WebKit code structured so that we can
> limit what
> we need to build and include in the file system? For instance, we
> do not
> need CSS, DOM, or XSLT. Our ability to make use of WebKit will
> depend in
> part on the footprint we can achieve in a memory-constrained
> system. Thanks
> for any assistance you can provide.
XSLT can be omitted as can some other XML-related features (like SVG)
but CSS and DOM cannot, as they are fundamental to how WebKit renders
even simple HTML.
Regards,
Maciej
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