[Kde-pim] Re: lead for GSoC proposal on HTML support to KMail

[Thomas McGuire]

Hi,

On Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:49:02 PM Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Thursday 31 March 2011, Torgny Nyblom wrote:
> > Thomas and I had a chat last evening and the plan that arised was:
> > 
> > 1: Fix the templateparser to be able to preserve HTML.
> > 2: In KDEPIM::MessageComposer remove the KMeditor and make that into
> > an abstract interface that the former KMeditor implements (for non
> > webkit platforms) and make a new HtmlEdit component that also
> > implements this interface.
> 
> What non-webkit platforms do you have in mind? Windows Mobile 6.5 (or
> whatever it's called)? Do we really need to stay compatible with this?
> Do you have any other non-webkit platforms in mind? I cannot imagine any
> relevant platform which would have Qt + kdelibs + kdepimlibs + Kontact
> but not webkit.
> 
> What we really need to avoid is superfluous work. We don't have any man-
> power to waste by making useless abstractions. Using an abstract
> interface for the editor was already tried many years ago. The idea was
> quickly abandonned because apparently nobody really needed this.

Hmm, I guess you are right, probably the WinCE version won't get rebased onto 
the master branch anyway, I think it is feature-frozen and everything.
So from my point of view we can port straight to Webkit.

Regards,
Thomas
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