Webkit-based browser by Kaj de Vos

browser.reds

Red/System [
    Title: "Lazy Sunday Afternoon Browser"
    Author: "Kaj de Vos"
]

#include %GTK-WebKit.reds

home: "http://www.red-lang.org/"

address: function [
    [cdecl]
    widget    [gtk-entry!]
    data      [gtk-scrolled-window!]
][
    web-browse  web-get-view data  gtk-get-entry-text widget
]

browser: browse home

gtk-view window [
    gtk-position-center
    "Lazy Sunday Afternoon Browser"
    vbox [
        field [home  :address browser] gtk-tight
        browser gtk-full
    ]
]

This is very exciting, but where is %GTK-WebKit.reds to be found???

It has not been publicly released yet, you need to ask Kaj for it.

It's a new binding that I started working on the same day I wrote the browser on top if it. I'll put it in a Fossil repository like the other bindings, but it'll take me a few days to clean it up, as I like to clay new projects out of a previous one that resembles it. Anyway, it's very small and minimal so far.

Any progress on publishing the cleaned-up version?

Sorry, I nuked my Linux installation, so I'm occupied with restoring that. I think I will get back to the bindings end of this week.

Good luck to you, then!

Did you in fact have any luck with reviving your Linux?

Kaj posted the first public version of the binding today at: http://red.esperconsultancy.nl/Red-GTK-WebKit

I tried to get it working on Windows but it needs libgstbase-0.10-0.dll. Any ideas where I can find that one?

Those are the GStreamer base plug-ins. The binding doesn't use them directly, but it's a dependency of WebKit. I don't know how WebKit is compiled on Windows, but if it has that dependency, GStreamer must be available, too.

Short of installing the complete GStreamer system, I cannot lay my hands on the libgstbase dll. In any case, more dependencies might surface if I were to install this single .dll. It all looks like a huge machinery to do a simple (?) thing, at least a thing that can be described in a few lines of code.

Yep, a web browser engine is a huge machinery, alas. At least on most Linux and probably BSD systems, the system supports installing them or has it all preinstalled already.

However, I do think you can pick just that one library out of the GStreamer distribution.