Ongoing web browser effort

News by khorben on 16/07/2006 16:39:17
An experimental web browser can be found there:
http://people.defora.org/~khorben/projects/surfer/
Its integration into DeforaOS tree is not likely as is, since it relies on an apparently unmaintained port of WebCore to Gtk+ 2.0. A re-packaged version of the port is being worked on, and will be available there as well, as it may turn out to be easier to compile and install than the original.

I would much rather work on graphical applications based on a new, cleaner toolkit, but Gtk+ got a lot better in its 2.6 revision, since they finally integrated relevant widgets from the GNOME project. I don't know if I like 2.8 much however, since it introduces lots of new dependencies. About the port of WebCore, a full featured browser cannot be developped around it as it is, but it is almost there (the biggest problem being probably the flexibility of Curl as connectivity backend).