Re: [dev] Using a different rendering engine for surf

Just found this as well. Perhaps interesting, perhaps not...

http://www.directfb.org/index.php?path=Main/News&entry=2010-10-27-0.dok

2010/10/22 Paul Onyschuk <blink_AT_bojary.koba.pl>:
> What about EFL (Enlightenment Foundation Libraries) Webkit? It isn't so
> feature rich as Chromium or Webkit-gtk, but it's getting there with
> Samsung pumping money.
>
> There are some desired features [1] on their roadmap, which seems
> interesting:
> - Remove strict X11 dependency, allowing DirectFB and FB at least;
> - Less dependency on GNOME technologies, maybe remove Cairo and LibSoup
> (the last one is already optional).
>
> EFL Webkit is based on gtk port, so most API is probably the same. Main
> problem is EFL moving very fast, but you can say the same about
> most Webkits in some degree.
>
> I didn't evaluate EFL Webkit myself, so I can be utterly wrong. EFL
> Webkit snapshots are build every week [2].
>
> [1] http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/EFLWebKit
> [2] http://labs.hardinfo.org/mindcrisis/2010/10/15/
> webkit-efl-automated-build-test/
>
> --
> Paul Onyschuk <blink_AT_bojary.koba.pl>
>
>
Received on Tue Nov 09 2010 - 05:40:07 CET