Webkit-based browser by Kaj de Vos

browser.reds

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
    ]
]

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.