Re: [9fans] Gecko based web browser

[Michael Dingler <mdingler@mindless.com>]

> > There is a small, working web browser thinly built around Gecko alone,
> > without the Mozilla baggage. It's called Galeon and is starting to
> > become popular.  It's at http://galeon.sourceforge.net
> 
> Oh yeah, it made it to slashdot even...
> 
> AFAIK it is tightly coupled with GNOME (they advertise it as a gnome web browser)
> which means it exploits the gtk+ libraries. A freebsd port is in the works (if
> not completed already) but a plan9 one would require gtk to be ported... And then
> we may just as well start porting the entire gnome bloatware... :P

Erm, I don't think that that anything of GNOME/gtk is
neccesary for the HTML display, parsing etc.
It's just wedged in your typical WIMPy framework due
to those libraries.

Porting Gecko shouldn't require anything from gtk, or
else the Win/Mac/Yadda people would have some serious
problems.

On the other hand, would that be a satisfying solution
at all to have one of the current-generation browsers?
IMHO that's like porting Motif to Plan9. HTML display,
ok, but not the current abomination. Although you'd need 
half an expert system to demoronise existing pages.

...Michael...