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Thu, 08 May 2008 12:07

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mrjt wrote on Thu, 08 May 2008 04:35

luzr wrote on Wed, 07 May 2008 20:34

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It looks like a lot of work, I believe you would have to port most/all of these files to Upp. Then there is the issue of maintaining it with current WebKit version. The Qt version is based on a 6 month old fork for instance and they have considerable resources.

Gecko may actually be easier to create a loose/lightweight wrapper for (if you can get your head around their XPCOM interface) as I believe the rendering is done internally, especially if you can keep most of the source precompiled into a .lib/.dll.

It's quite possible I'm entirely wrong about this though - I'm certainly not an expert - but I thought I'd share what I knew.

Qt guys already have synced the newest webkit which will be available in qt 4.5. I think webkit is better as it seems to be more lightweight and developed much quicker than gecko. Probably cost of first port is quite big, but cost of maintaing it should be a way smaller. Anyway if I had free time I would port it Smile

Unfotunately there are many things in a queue to be done first (new version of gridctrl, documentation for it, I have some ideas for quicktabs, then I would like to port them to our 2 docking systems (I guess it's time to choose one), I'd like to also fix code assist and file window font height problem, create upp demo application and so on Smile

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