XUL Support in Konqueror

[Arend van Beelen jr.]

On 6/27/05, Philip Scott <pgs31 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Just to say hi - I am your newest recruit, courtesy of Google - I intend to
> give Konqueror XUL support. I am not that familiar with khtml, or the
> Konqueror code-bases, so I thought before I dived in the deep-end, I would
> solicit a few opinions...
> 
> There are two main approaches, as far as I can see
> 
> - An XUL kpart
>   pros: reusable
>         can be used independantly of Konqui
>         saves me having to get my head around khtml ;)
>         can make use of Georges existing work with KaXUL
>   cons: what about XUL embedded in web pages
>         performance issues with lots of XSL transformations
> 
> - Embedding directly into khtml
> 
>   pros: tight integration
>         probably quickest
>   cons: full XUL applications will need the complete khtml part
>         khtml bloat
>         harder to implement
Isn't it true a XUL application will need the khtml part anyway as XUL
applications quite often embed HTML into their interfaces?

Wouldn't it be possible to create some kind of "XML namespace plugin"
which would load XUL support into KHTML as soon as the XUL namespace
is included? I honoustly don't know whether KHTML supports such a
thing, and if not, it's probably quite a lot work to add it, but it
would provide the cleanest solution IMHO.
 
> [...]

Just some thoughts,
Arend jr.

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