Questions about KHTML

[Sebastien Raveau]

Hi Pierre,


On Thursday 14 April 2005 13:14, Pierre D. wrote:
> Do you know what Looking Glass (alias LG3D) is ? It is a sun opensource
> project, which aims at creating a 3D desktop. I'm just an user, and I saw
> on the forum of LG3D that one of the developers what to create a web
> browser. His first idea was to use Gecko, but I made some ad for KHTML
> (easier to use, stable API and so on)...
> He has some questions about KHTML :
> - Is it abstract enough to render the web pages into an image we can  can
> access from Java ?

Wouldn't that be a bit overkill? Especially for scrolling (well, ok, you could 
make an image of the webpage from top to bottom, and then move it up and down 
in LG3D) and animated content (animated GIFs, Flash animations)...

IMO, the good approach to a 3D desktop would be to have X11 draw directly into 
an OpenGL context, so that all X applications could be directly integrated 
into a 3D desktop without having to provide extra support. But that's only my 
personal opinion...

> - Will it run standalone, or does it assume the rest of KDE is running ?

There is already a "separate" project trying to do that:
"Konqueror/Embedded runs on the Qt/Embedded platform for embedded devices, in 
an environment without a KDE installation or a X windowing system"
http://konqueror.kde.org/embedded/


Cheers,

-- 
Sébastien Raveau
computer and network security student
head of the hawKeye network monitor project
http://hawkeye.sourceforge.net/
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