Efl lacks a browser engine #36

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opened 2023-08-24 00:30:33 -07:00 by MaxPerl · 2 comments

Hello everybody,

at the moment the enlightenment foundation libraries are missing a browser engine. There was a WebKit binding (eWebKit), but I cannot compile it anymore and it is very outdated. In the tizen space there seems to be a chromium-efl engine (https://git.tizen.org/cgit/platform/framework/web/chromium-efl/), but for the upstream efl libraries there is no option to render html pages.

For a basic support of html rendering one could integrate litehtml (https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml) in someway? For me this task is far above my capabilities, but perhaps for some experienced programmer this would not as hard as updating eWebKit?

Best wishes,
Max

Hello everybody, at the moment the enlightenment foundation libraries are missing a browser engine. There was a WebKit binding (eWebKit), but I cannot compile it anymore and it is very outdated. In the tizen space there seems to be a chromium-efl engine (https://git.tizen.org/cgit/platform/framework/web/chromium-efl/), but for the upstream efl libraries there is no option to render html pages. For a basic support of html rendering one could integrate litehtml (https://github.com/litehtml/litehtml) in someway? For me this task is far above my capabilities, but perhaps for some experienced programmer this would not as hard as updating eWebKit? Best wishes, Max
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I was hoping you'd be volunteering... :) but realistically - this is the kind of work you need a dedicated team on to keep up with the insane pace of browser engine development in upsgtrems be it webkit, blnk/chromium or gecko and friends. litehtml would put all the rendering work onto whoever uses it - it's probably more useful for robots and web page scrapers. suffice to say - a looot of work without the time/people to do it. :)

I was hoping you'd be volunteering... :) but realistically - this is the kind of work you need a dedicated team on to keep up with the insane pace of browser engine development in upsgtrems be it webkit, blnk/chromium or gecko and friends. litehtml would put all the rendering work onto whoever uses it - it's probably more useful for robots and web page scrapers. suffice to say - a looot of work without the time/people to do it. :)
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@maxperl you can maybe look at servo.

@maxperl you can maybe look at servo.
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