Re: Plans for ahead

[Gregory Casamento]

Wrapping chrome is easy given that we can use CEF (Chromium Embedded
Framework) which is designed for this purpose.  I did it in a week
when I worked for AOL and added a view based on CEF to WinAmp for Mac.
Why they made me use CEF instead of WebKit is still a complete mystery
to me, but that was the case.

On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 9:41 PM, Luis Garcia Alanis <luis@garcia.tv> wrote:
> But what is more expensive, write all the code to wrap chrome in gnustep or
> writing the missing dependencies? not to mention the team that made the OS X
> version will maintain the app.
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 5:42 PM, James Carthew <jcarthew@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Porting an OSX web browser has been considered in the past. It has not
>> been completed because things such as text tables are not yet implemented
>> within GNUstep.
>>
>> On 7 December 2015 at 12:05, ChanMaxthon <xcvista@me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Crazy idea for this: port the OS X version of Chromium or Firefox over?
>>> That should already been modified to use Cocoa and we just need to provide
>>> all its dependencies. The same applies for Apple's version of WebKit on
>>> which a clone of Safari can be built.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Dec 7, 2015, at 08:53, Svetlana A. Tkachenko
>>> <svetlana@members.fsf.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> >> Now as a desktop user who would like to run GUNstep full time, I have
>>> >> to ask, has anyone actually started making chromium embedded embed into a
>>> >> gnustep window?
>>> >> I used Mantella in the past and I was happy with it. Mantella was this
>>> >> exact idea with firefox. Unfortunately the interface to firefox they used
>>> >> was deprecated.
>>> >
>>> > About "embedding" Chromium or Firefox - I do not mind embedding the
>>> > stuff rendered by the engine (WebKit/Gecko), but I would not, as a
>>> > matter of personal preference, recommend to port over the Chromium's or
>>> > Firefox's interface. For UX consistency I would prefer the interface to
>>> > be in GNUStep things. I hope we are getting there one way or another.
>>> > :)
>>> >
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