From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gavin Smith Subject: Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation? Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 21:35:27 +0100 Message-ID: <20191015203527.GA22658@mintstar> References: <87a7h8u4r4.fsf@gnu.org> <20190402150245.GA30067@darkstar> <256d60e8-0148-1dd3-4c9d-86e14b42060b@bothner.com> <20190407162804.GA28500@darkstar.example.net> <87k1g4v8dq.fsf@gnu.org> <20190413162121.GA28137@darkstar.example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-texinfo-bounces+gnu-bug-texinfo2=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-texinfo" To: P Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" , Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= , Texinfo List-Id: guix-devel.gnu.org On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 08:20:14PM +0000, P wrote: > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Tuesday, October 15, 2019 7:27 PM, Gavin Smith wrote: > > WebKitGTK seemed to be the best option for a lightweight embedded > > web-browser. I looked into other options, such as the Gecko engine > > used inside Thunderbird, but apparently it is not supported any more > > to embed it in other programs. WebKitGTK allowed access to the DOM > > tree of the documents without the complication of communicating with > > embedded JavaScript, as was needed with QtWebEngine. > > > > Out of curiosity, have you looked at smaller browser engines, such as Dillo or Netsurf? I hadn't looked at either of them. Do you know if they can be embedded inside another program and allow access to the DOM tree of the web page?