Webkit (was Re: Easier reports with eguile-gnc)

[Phil Longstaff]

On March 19, 2009 01:23:43 pm Chris Dennis wrote:
> Reports created this way are still limited by GTKHTML's inability to
> honour <font> tags or CSS stylesheets.  Hopefully GnuCash can get round
> that limitation eventually -- I know this has been discussed in the past.

I've started to play around with what would be required to replace GtkHTML by 
Webkit.  As a model, I'm using epiphany's multi-engine support.  Essentially, 
they have a number of GObjects and GObject-interfaces to an engine (ephy-
embed).  My plan of attack is:

1) Get ephy-embed (browsing engine objects) to compile in gnucash dev't 
environment (done)
2) Write ephy-embed-based objects to support GtkHTML.
3) Rewrite gnc_html in terms of ephy-embed.

These steps offer no functional changes, but reimplement html-engine support in 
terms of the ephy-embed objects.  It then becomes a fairly simple matter to 
drop use of the gtkhtml ephy-embed objects and replace them with the webkit 
ephy-embed objects (which can be borrowed from epiphany and use a separately 
installed webkit engine).

Phil