Re: netscape 4.6

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Damion Yates wrote:
> > > Mozilla M6 (the latest version of the 'free' netscape) is supposed to be
> > > reasonably stable also - I keep meaning to have a look at it.
> > Lot of people say it's OK.
>
> Is that the one that you can compile against GTK+ or Qt making qtmozzila or
> gtkmozzila respectively ?

You can compile against a load of things. The Mozilla engine, Gecko, can
be compiled for Win/32 and used in IE - basically, the GUI of IE with the
Netscape page layout engine - very odd. There is gtkMozilla, which as I
understand it is a gtk object which can be embedded into things (i.e, your
own program - html help files, etc). I've not heard of qtMozilla, but I
suspect it could be done. Mozilla itself is not a complex piece of
software - the current browser had two buttons an URL box last time I
looked - most of the work is going into Gecko, the display engine.

> I'd be interested in seeing that as the performance should be stunning.

Mozilla is supposed to be quite small - the download is ~5Mb, IIRC. Gecko,
the display engine, is supposed to be very small and quick - it would have
to be to be an embeddable object. It's still lagging behind IE5 in terms
of html/xml/ecmascript compatibility, and things like that though. But it
is supposed to be quite an exciting piece of software - the ability to
embed is good, and I've heard some CORBA related stuff about it too. I
suspect the GNOME KDE teams will be doing something with the code -
KDE's html engine already looks nice (unrelated to Mozilla), and they're
doing some clever stuff too.

Cheers,

Alex.

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