Webkit status (updated)

Phil Longstaff plongstaff at rogers.com
Tue Mar 31 07:57:53 EDT 2009


On March 31, 2009 05:14:31 am Chris Dennis wrote:
> Hello Phil
>
> Phil Longstaff wrote:
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > as an alternative to webkit, I was also looking at whether gecko would
> > be a better engine.  It looks about the same as webkit as far as
> > maturity is concerned.
> >
> > Anyway, modify Makefile.am and remove references to
> > gnc-html-gtkmozembed.c.  You'll then need to run autogen.sh and
> > configure again.  This will ensure that file won't be compiled.  I'm
> > going to commit some changes to remove those files in the near future.
>
> OK, I've done that, and compiled your version.  But the reports are
> still generated via GtkHTML.  Is there something that needs to be done
> to a report to make it use Webkit?

It's not the report, it's how gnucash is compiled.  With the changes I 
committed last night, you need to add '--enable-webkit' to the 'configure' 
command.  You also need to ensure you have the webkit libraries and include 
files installed.

What distro are you running?  What version of webkit?

Phil


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