11:45 a.m.
It seems like netsurf is a great candidate for providing HTML based UI in apps. Is this
something anyone has tried from a technical point of view?
Does the current licensing support this for paid for apps or is netsurf licensable for
such purposes?
Thanks,Richard.
10:56 a.m.
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 08:45:18AM -0800, Richard Gale wrote:
It seems like netsurf is a great candidate for providing HTML based
UI in apps. Is this something anyone has tried from a technical point of view?
Does the current licensing support this for paid for apps or is netsurf licensable for
such purposes?
The core is not currently "embeddable" as such, although we are working
towards that.
Additionally, the core is licenced under GPLv2. You'd be welcome to
embed it in a paid-for app, as long as it was also licenced under the
GPLv2.
B.
11:14 a.m.
On 21/01/2014 16:56, Rob Kendrick wrote:
On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 08:45:18AM -0800, Richard Gale wrote:
> It seems like netsurf is a great candidate for providing HTML based UI in apps. Is
this something anyone has tried from a technical point of view?
> Does the current licensing support this for paid for apps or is netsurf licensable
for such purposes?
The core is not currently "embeddable" as such, although we are working
towards that.
Additionally, the core is licenced under GPLv2. You'd be welcome to
embed it in a paid-for app, as long as it was also licenced under the
GPLv2.
Actually, there is one case of such use, in the BeOS frontend.
We actually expose the Replicant interface, that allows other
applications to embed a Netsurf view inside itself, either by
drag-n-drop, or programmatically.
It currently has some bugs but it works at least with the BeHappy help
browser:
https://github.com/HaikuArchives/BeHappy
As for the licence, since the applications are not compile-time linked
to NetSurf but instead rely on a standardized API, I'm not sure what the
constraints would be, but definitely different than with explicit
linking. BeHappy is MIT-licenced anyway, which is GPL compatible.
François.
5:52 p.m.
Hello Richard,
seems like everyone forgot to answer your question.
Am Sonntag, den 15.12.2013, 08:45 -0800 schrieb Richard Gale:
It seems like netsurf is a great candidate for providing HTML based
UI
in apps. Is this something anyone has tried from a technical point of
view?
More or less recently, there was some change inside the NetSurf API,
which may makes this more easy. The frontend code can contain the
mainloop now:
http://git.netsurf-browser.org/netsurf.git/commit/?id=dfb774c2458f749ebaf...
However, there is a problem: The frontend only receives localized text
messages when the netsurf engine changes it's state.
Websites, however, can open severeal frames/windows. You can not easily
make sure for which window your receive status texts, you do not receive
one single "RENDERING_FINISHED" message. AFAIK there is no reliable
mechanism implemented to cleanly report "end of rendering" to host
applications.
Greets,
Ole
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