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Re: Embedding KHTML in MRJ-apps ?

On Friday, April 2, 2004, at 09:36 AM, email@hidden wrote:


Only to the extent that they share page-rendering code. Safari is not "based on" Konquerer in any meaningful sense.

Of course with the HTML editor kit Java itself can do some page rendering.
I tend to need to do a little research fairly often to get the background on some of the issues that come up on the list.
I did a little checking following a list thread concerning LiveConnect to see what this was really about.
Curiously it somewhat seemed to me that about all the pieces appeared to be in place to manage this 'pure java' but for some reason no one seemed to making the effort to put them together. The pieces I'm thinking of being HTML page rendering and link handling DOM support and Javascript.
There is Mozilla Rhino for the javascript. Pure java meant for embedding anywhere except a java browser it seemed like. Or no special effort put into making it browser ready.
I did find htmlunit a SourceForge web testing project. Derek's post concerning his web testing framework brought this back to mind. I don't know how it compares to htmlunit. The documentation there for htmlunit seemed a bit sparse when I looked at it.
The point being though that it almost seemed you could slap the HTML rendering on the test harness, which was JUnit and Rhino dervided and you just about had a LiveConnect support pure java browser right there.
Maybe no one goes this route because they don't want to cover the same ground as HotJava? Itself not the most successful or even active anymore?
I started to splice something together myself but it wasn't all that easy and eventually I got distracted and pulled away to something else. What Dmitry Markman is doing with the WebKit stuff seems more interesting these days. But it did seem possible.


Mike Hall <mikehall at spacestar dot net>
<http://www.spacestar.net/users/mikehall>
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