Re: Simple Web Kit vs. WebKit

[Jesse Ross]

> Has there been any discussions regarding the use of Apple's WebKit  
> on GNUStep?

Yes -- there have been many discussions about it. For one of the more  
recent examples, check this page for references to SimpleWebKit:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/discuss-gnustep/2007-03/threads.html

> I've looked at the WebKit code, albeit not too deeply, but from  
> what I can tell, there is little or
> no use of Carbon. The majority is in C++, and the lower level  
> classes are just C++ wrappers around
> Cocoa objects (with Objective C++).

I hear that with 3.0 the code has been cleaned up quite a bit (no  
doubt to allow for the port of Safari to Windows, and it's use in  
Nokia's browser and Adobe's AIR platform). Regardless of the fact  
that we now have SimpleWebKit, it would still be nice to see WebKit  
ported to GNUstep, as it is a mature product with many more  
developers, with lots of "in-the-wild" testing, and with big  
corporate backing.


J.