From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Per Bothner Subject: Re: Any interest in using HTML for locally-installed Texinfo documentation? Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:40:17 -0700 Message-ID: <935f0a37-8c59-2877-989c-aa47e6478611@bothner.com> 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US 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 , Gavin Smith Cc: "guix-devel@gnu.org" , =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=c3=a8s?= , Texinfo List-Id: guix-devel.gnu.org On 10/15/19 1:20 PM, 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? Dillo does not support JavaScript or frames, which would seem to preclude (or at least complicate) the kind of functionality we are hoping for. -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://per.bothner.com/