nanogui: Small open source web browser introduced
Subject:
Re: Small open source web browser introduced
From:
Roberto Alsina ####@####.####
Date:
17 Jul 2000 13:07:48 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0007171005390.2225-100000@server.ar.conectiva>
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000, Greg Haerr wrote:
> So I created one. With MontaVista and my company Century
> Software's backing, we've created a first release v0.1. We
> evaluated most all open source HTML display widgets looking
> foremost for high-quality HTML display, and secondly, being
> somewhat small and well written. We came up with KDE's kfm
> widget as the best choice. It is extremely well written, but expects
> the Qt widget set underneath. Qt is too large. We wrote a thin
> glue layer that translates Qt calls into FLTK calls (both toolkits
> are written in C++). FLTK was chosen because it is quite small,
> and most importantly runs on both X and Microwindows (we're
> using the Nano-X multiple client/server API). We then wrote
> a very thin user interface (this needs more work) that allows
> a user to operate the display engine, essentially.
Argh. You just tied yourself to code that will have no development
whatsoever in the future. Why not use KDE2's widget? It's much better.
("\''/").__..-''"`-. . Roberto Alsina
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