XUL support in Konqueror/KHTML.

[George Staikos]

On Monday 22 November 2004 11:42, Paul Sprakes wrote:
> On Monday 22 Nov 2004 15:30, George Staikos wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 November 2004 13:36, Paul Sprakes wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I want to try and add xul support to Konqueror and after looking around
> > > khtml source I think I have a good idea for progressing with it.
> >
> >    You mean you want to add it into KHTML itself?
>
> Yes, but I suppose the main intention is a plugin system so that such
> things can be added to khtml without touching khtml's source code.

  This looks like a good idea generally.

> >    I wrote most of that code.  The idea is that XUL can be implemented
> > with native widgets as opposed to rendering.  It's much faster and more
> > aesthetically pleasing I think.
>
> Still not had the time to look at it yet other than a cursory glance. Would
> I be correct in assuming it converts xul into Qt's ui fomat?

  That's part of it, yes.

> It's all down to tradeoffs I suppose. From the readme Kaxul has some js
> support, no css support and I'm not sure about embedded html support whilst
> khtml has the above but no xul. And neither handle namespaces.

  Yes there are tradeoffs.  You can embed HTML in Kaxul since you can embed 
KHTMLPart.  CSS could be easily implemented, though we may not easily support 
-all- properties yet.

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