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Webkit-based browser by Kaj de Vos
Red/System [
Title: "Lazy Sunday Afternoon Browser"
Author: "Kaj de Vos"
]
#include %GTK-WebKit.reds
home: "http://www.red-lang.org/"
address: function [
[cdecl]
widget [gtk-entry!]
data [gtk-scrolled-window!]
][
web-browse web-get-view data gtk-get-entry-text widget
]
browser: browse home
gtk-view window [
gtk-position-center
"Lazy Sunday Afternoon Browser"
vbox [
field [home :address browser] gtk-tight
browser gtk-full
]
]
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It has not been publicly released yet, you need to ask Kaj for it.

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It's a new binding that I started working on the same day I wrote the browser on top if it. I'll put it in a Fossil repository like the other bindings, but it'll take me a few days to clean it up, as I like to clay new projects out of a previous one that resembles it. Anyway, it's very small and minimal so far.

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meijeru commented Nov 13, 2011

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Any progress on publishing the cleaned-up version?

@Kaj-de-Vos

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Sorry, I nuked my Linux installation, so I'm occupied with restoring that. I think I will get back to the bindings end of this week.

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meijeru commented Nov 14, 2011

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Good luck to you, then!

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meijeru commented Nov 28, 2011

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Did you in fact have any luck with reviving your Linux?

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Kaj posted the first public version of the binding today at: http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-GTK-WebKit

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meijeru commented Nov 30, 2011

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I tried to get it working on Windows but it needs libgstbase-0.10-0.dll. Any ideas where I can find that one?

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Those are the GStreamer base plug-ins. The binding doesn't use them directly, but it's a dependency of WebKit. I don't know how WebKit is compiled on Windows, but if it has that dependency, GStreamer must be available, too.

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meijeru commented Nov 30, 2011

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Short of installing the complete GStreamer system, I cannot lay my hands on the libgstbase dll. In any case, more dependencies might surface if I were to install this single .dll. It all looks like a huge machinery to do a simple (?) thing, at least a thing that can be described in a few lines of code.

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Yep, a web browser engine is a huge machinery, alas. At least on most Linux and probably BSD systems, the system supports installing them or has it all preinstalled already.

However, I do think you can pick just that one library out of the GStreamer distribution.

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