benefits of webkit

Geert Janssens janssens-geert at telenet.be
Wed Dec 9 09:27:53 EST 2009


On Monday 7 December 2009, Phil Longstaff wrote:
> Yes, the benefits will be in reporting.  Reports are created as HTML which
> are then displayed through an internal browser.  2.2.X uses an older
> browser which has not kept up with modern web features (most notable, CSS
> which can be used to control fonts, colors and placement).  Webkit is the
> html display engine used on Macs in Safari, and on Windows in Google
> Chrome.  Using webkit, for example, it is (or will be) possible to have
> reports look much more professional.  There is still some work needed for
> reports, but you can get some idea by opening a report, opening the report
> options, then changing the style sheet.  You can create and edit a style
> sheet (under Edit -> Stylesheets) by creating a new one (e.g. called Peter
> Reports) using "Default-CSS" as the base.  When you edit the style sheet,
> you can set fonts for different parts of the report.  Now, change the style
> sheet in your report options to "Peter Reports" and click OK.  Your report
> should change to match your fonts, and when you print it, it should also
> match those fonts.  Note that there is a bug on Windows that the report
> font when printing is *really* small.
>
This printing problem, is that a case of GnuCash using Webkit improperly, or 
is this a bug in Webkit for Windows ? Just curious. I couldn't deduce this 
from your formulation.

Geert




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