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by albertzeyer 5379 days ago
About the HTML support: This only simply draws to a HTML canvas. This is mostly just a nice and simple hack but I doubt that people would use GTK now as an alternative to real web frameworks. I have seen similar hacks for VNC, X11 and other stuff.

This would be much more interesting if the GTK components map to real HTML elements.
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cbs 5379 days ago
>This would be much more interesting if the GTK components map to real HTML elements.

This is where we're eventually headed, the mozilla project "chromeless" is an interesting experiment down the path. IIRC It gets rid of XUL for the application chrome and uses html/js for the entire program gui.

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sedachv 5379 days ago
"This would be much more interesting if the GTK components map to real HTML elements."

This is really hard to do wrt skinning. The only thing you really want is text selection to work properly for cut-and-paste. A good question to ask is what does the Canvas backend for GTK for cut-and-paste now?

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