Making a browser with Rev

Jack Tsu xeubie at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 3 03:50:01 EDT 2006


Thanks for your reply. I certainly don't want to write my browser engine 
from scratch, so it's good to hear this. I'm still kind of worried about 
specific things, like how to provide my own interface to create plug-ins, 
since I assume my app can't use IE or Safari plug-ins. I'd like to create a 
serious browser for everyday use, not just a toy to hack with. But anyway, 
altBrowser looks very promising and I think I might try it.


>From: "Bill Marriott" <wjm at wjm.org>
>Reply-To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>Subject: Re: Making a browser with Rev
>Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 02:02:59 -0400
>
>Jack,
>
>Yes, with altBrowser you can do everything a professional browser could do
>quite nicely.... because you are actually using the professional browser. 
>It
>basically enables you to embed either Internet Explorer (Windows) or Safari
>(Mac) into your Rev stack. It is not an alternative browser.
>
>Rev itself can capture the HTML of any web page and even does some basic
>rendering -- text styles and inline graphics -- within its text fields. But
>it won't handle anything like tables or CSS or DHTML. As for writing your
>own browser from scratch in Rev? That would be a massive undertaking no
>matter what language/platform you used! :)
>
>"Jack Tsu" <xeubie at hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:BAY118-F3385A1BEBEF3FB6A00049CC9960 at phx.gbl...
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Could anyone give be an honest viewpoint about whether Rev is powerful
> > enough to make a full-blown web browser? I am aware of altBrowser, but 
>I'm
> > not sure whether that is meant to be a small add-on for apps that need 
>to
> > read HTML pages, or whether it can really do everything a professional
> > browser like IE, Firefox, or Safari could do.
>
>
>
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