Re: Notes about WebCore
Re: Notes about WebCore
- Subject: Re: Notes about WebCore
- From: Marcel Weiher <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 02:07:47 +0100
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 08:52 Uhr, Philippe Mougin wrote:
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WebCore seems designed as an embeddable framework, which is quite
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significant for Cocoa developers because it shall give them
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world-class HTML processing and rendering capacities for their own
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applications. But AFAIK, there is no documentation about it. Is it
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intended to be used directly, or through a forthcoming framework? This
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is still unclear for me, although the latter seems probable. Indeed,
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inspecting Safari at run-time reveals that there are more web related
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classes here than those provided by WebCore alone (and JavaScriptCore,
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its companion package). The WebKit framework, included in the Safari
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executable package, may be this forthcoming framework...
Yes, I have been playing a bit with WebCore and found that it appears
to be incomplete if you want to actually render HTML.
Like, bummer.
It looks like it requires various renderers to be supplied by the user,
but I am still unclear where and how to supply them, even if I had
them. You also need to subclass WebCoreBridge.
Marcel
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