[Opencd-devel] More on K-Meleon and Installer Options...

[J A. F. <jaa...@ya...>]

My goodness, I go away for a weekend and I return to find a host of emails!  I
haven't gotten through everything yet, so I still may be a little behind on
some of the discussion.  If so, please bring me more up to date.

I'm not sure if anyone else has yet started work on K-Meleon or a similar light
weight web browser.  I've started looking at the source (it's C/C++) and have
gotten some response from the K-Meleon developers.  I just wanted to update
everyone on what I've found.

The biggest trick to getting K-Meleon to work for us will be getting it to run
off of the CD-ROM.  To do this requires digging around in some of the Mozilla
code.  The other features we require are fairly easily implemented in K-Meleon.
 I'm hoping to have a feel for what needs changed at least by the end of the
week.

However, I do have some issues to raise:

Are we targetting only the Win32 platform?  If so, K-Meleon as our installer
engine might really be the way to go.  If not, then we should probably look at
some browser based on a cross-platform language like java, python, perl, etc. 
This way we would be able to easily run our stripped down web broswer on
multiple platforms.

If we do want to go with a cross-platform browser, then we face other issues. 
I've been looking for a while, and I haven't found many good java/python/perl
browsers.  The most complete one I could find was a java-based broswer called
XBrowser, but I don't think it has a full screen mode (like K-Meleon).  Grail
is a python based browser, but it's lacking in some features as well (Doesn't
support all of HTML 3.2).  If anyone knows of any other viable broswers, please
let me know.

So I suppose my biggest question is, are we only targetting the Win32 platform?
 The answer should significantly influence our installer application.

If anyone else is already looking at K-Meleon, or a similar browser, please let
me know.  I'm away on 'vacation' this week, but I'll see what I can do.

jaaron

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