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Done that 3

Christmas this year meant productivity time for me.

• Digged into WebKit. WebKit is indeed a really nice toolkit to render HTML. I’ve used webkit-gtk, the GTK bindings for webkit. The result is a patch for Liferea, which allows to render Newsfeeds using WebKit. This patch is still not finished but most features are working. I’m still undecided weither I should allow inline browsing for WebKit. It is provided by the GtkHtml plugin of Liferea, but I would basically create yet another browser embeded into Liferea. It would be just a few buttons and a few signals to connect but I still prefer to open newsfeed links in a standalone browser.

• Finished the proposal for Zend_Service_SecondLife, which is based on internal code I’ve created for Neu.de. But not just the proposal, even a fully working prototype done with good code coverage which is ready for you to play with. Thanks to Darby Felton for being my nurse at Zend.
• Installed Firefox 3.0 beta2, got a lot of extensions to work and now use it now as my everyday browser.
• Did a lot of work for the Next Best Thing. More to come.

Update: The patch for Liferea is now included in the subversion tree. I’m still working on WebKit for Liferea to complete the missing features.

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1. Astro says:

   published on January 3^rd 2008, 04:31:32 am

   I want these browsers, too! Ebuilds, Jhbuild?

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2. Lars Strojny answers:

   published on January 3^rd 2008, 03:17:35 pm

   Fetch the firefox ebuilds from "here":http://milch.schokokeks.org/~lars/mozilla/nightly/mozilla-firefox-nightly-ebuild.tar.bz2. This ebuild uses a custom source snapshot I generate every night, as Mozilla does not provide nightly snapshots of the source currently. Just adjust SRC_DATE-variable in the ebuild. The webkit-ebuild can be found in "Gentoo’s bugtracker":https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190347. I now have access to the Liferea SVN, just check out the trunk and configure with —enable-webkit —disable-gecko.

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3. Astro replys:

   published on January 3^rd 2008, 06:35:31 pm

   Thanks alot!

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