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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Gavin Smith <GavinSmith0123@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Texinfo <bug-texinfo@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation?
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2019 17:12:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k1g4v8dq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190407162804.GA28500@darkstar.example.net> (Gavin Smith's message of "Sun, 7 Apr 2019 17:28:04 +0100")

Hello,

Gavin Smith <gavinsmith0123@gmail.com> skribis:

> On Tue, Apr 02, 2019 at 09:46:05AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
>> Both Electron and QtWebEngine have mechanisms for communicating between
>> the "browser" window and the main application, which is not sandboxed.
>> (For QtWebEngine the main application is regular non-sandboxed C++ code.)
>> For a desktop browser like Firefox, one could pass important environment
>> variables in the URL.  For bi-directional communication between a
>> sandboxed desktop browser and the C/C++ wrapper program one can always
>> use WebSockets or XmlHttpRequest ("AJAX").
>
> I've started work on a documentation browser using QtWebEngine.  The 
> work can be seen in the qt-info branch of the Texinfo Git repository:
>
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/tree/js/docbrowser?h=qt-info

Neat!

From a “social” viewpoint, I think WebKitGTK would be more appropriate,
GTK+/GNOME being affiliated with GNU.

Also, QtWebEngine relies on bits of Chromium, which is a real challenge
from a software freedom viewpoint and from a security viewpoint, to the
point that we ended up removing it from our Qt builds in Guix:

  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/qt.scm#n143
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2015-06/msg00302.html

Regardless, thanks for moving forward!

Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-08 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-01 12:55 Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation? Gavin Smith
2019-04-01 14:01 ` sirgazil
2019-04-02  9:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-02 15:02   ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-02 16:46     ` Per Bothner
2019-04-07 16:28       ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-08 15:12         ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-04-08 15:39           ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-04-08 23:46           ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-09  6:25             ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-04-13 16:21           ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-14 19:25             ` Pronaip
2019-10-15 19:27             ` Gavin Smith
2019-10-15 20:20               ` P
2019-10-15 20:35                 ` Gavin Smith
2019-10-15 20:40                 ` Per Bothner
2019-10-15 21:00                   ` Gavin Smith
2019-10-15 21:09                     ` Per Bothner
2019-10-15 21:30                       ` Gavin Smith
2019-10-16  1:39               ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-10-19 20:31               ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-10-22 19:00                 ` Gavin Smith
2019-10-22 20:18                   ` Gavin Smith
2019-11-03 14:04                   ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-11-03 15:37                     ` Gavin Smith
2019-11-06 21:49                       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-03 21:21     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-04 10:33       ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-02 15:31   ` Per Bothner
2019-04-03 21:11     ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-03 22:44       ` Per Bothner
2019-04-04 10:23       ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-04 16:02         ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-02 20:12   ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-04-02 20:27     ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-04-02 22:58       ` sirgazil
2019-04-02 22:10     ` Per Bothner
2019-04-02 23:09       ` sirgazil
2019-04-03  8:43         ` Gavin Smith
2019-04-03 14:23           ` sirgazil
2019-04-03 14:40             ` Per Bothner
2019-04-03 14:49       ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-04-02 21:02 ` George Clemmer
2019-04-07 11:08   ` Gavin Smith

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