[Blapp-developers] WebKit - the low-hanging fruit

[Michael M. <mmc...@cs...>]

Hi, everyone:
I'm aware that there are some bugs still around, and other possibly 
more pressing features, but since it's so fun, I started working on 
moving the HTML preview over to using WebKit.

I'm writing to ask opinions on whether I should check it in as a branch 
- because it now just blindly links against WebKit, and won't work if 
people don't have Safari 1.0 installed. There are ways to cope with 
that and keep using old textview functionality if WebKit isn't there - 
in fact I started out doing that, but I made a mess of it and backed 
off.

There's still a bunch of work to do to make it work nicely, despite the 
amount of progress I got out of just an hour, as shown on my weblog 
screenshot...
I think links should open in Safari, at least as a preference, and the 
blosxom flavor templates need to be accounted for to get the 
appropriate styles...
also the css style file needs to be specified as a pref, I just 
hard-coded it to test.

So, if anyone's got an opinion, let me know, otherwise I might just 
check it in on the trunk after a little more work because I don't know 
enough about how to handle branches.

-mike