Re: [openpsion] Gtk-Webcore browser from Nokia

[Rene R. <re...@ex...>]

Hi,

Andrew Flegg wrote:

> Nokia have combined WebCore (the technologies powering Apple's Safari
> browser which are ultimately based on Konqueror's rendering engine) and
> GTK+ to make a lightweight browser:
> 
>     http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I'd guess this is what they're using on the 770, and they've released a
> version of it for Series 60:

I consider gtk-webcore a fake. It is form October 2004 and the CVS only 
contains the first checkin (aside the web repository which got some 
commits thereafter).

>     http://press.nokia.com/PR/200506/998214_5.html

I doubt that - they will use some other custom version that does not use 
Gtk+ and a Unix style C library but bases on the EPOC libraries and such.

And I somehow I have the feeling they will only open source what they 
have to according to the licenses. So most probabably not the full browser.

However this half a year old gtk-webcore could be used - though keeping 
it up to data with kHTML and kJS might be a pain. I would rather base on 
the Konqueror / KDE embedded stuff than on a commercial Apple / Nokia 
flavour of it.

> That means:
> 
>    a) It runs on Linux
>    b) It runs on low end devices
>    c) It runs on an EPOC-derivative
> 
> Hopefully, it shouldn't be too hard to get cross compiled and working on
> a Sargebook if someone fancied a go. It should be much quicker, slimmer
> and just as featured as Firefox - perfect for a netBook "classic".
> 
> OT, but just as interesting, given the Series 60 version - anyone with
> the skills to backport it to ER5? I dunno if the Symbian version's code
> is available yet though.

Yours,

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