html browser for wine (khtml)

[Marcus Meissner]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:21:18AM -0500, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On January 9, 2003 12:14 pm, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> > I'd prefer to avoid C++, but if there's no other choice then of course
> > we'll have to do it. I'm still hoping that we can find a way to avoid
> > duplicating all that code inside Wine, C++ or not.
> 
> Well, it seems the only worthy alternatives are Mozilla and KHTML, and
> they are both written in C++. I am 100% with you on the non-duplicating
> bit: even if we get something in the tree, it's not going to be maintained,
> and it will bitrot to fast for words. It would be a huge addition and
> burden to maintain for the Wine project.
> 
> Galeon does not include Mozilla -- it uses it. There's got to be a way to
> use KHTML in a similar manner. Even my first hand approximation (using
> the Win32 build of Mozilla) seems like a better option than duplicating
> code. If we get that working, I'm sure we can work with the Mozilla team
> to find a way of embedding the Linux version. Heck, Galeon does it!

Actually there already was a Konqueror / WINE integration already, called
reaktivate. It replaced urlmon and provided a IWebBrowser interface.

Ciao, Marcus