Re: clutter integration in the xwidget branch

[chad]

On Jun 28, 2011, at 1:49 AM, Julien Danjou wrote:

So here the question I wonder for days now and I need to ask out loud:

  Why not embed WebKit as a display engine?

It would probably be a large amount of difficult work.  

Over the years, multiple groups have tried this approach using less

complicated versions of the web (pre-_javascript_, pre-css, pre-xhtml,

etc) and less complicated editing systems (more `notepad' than

`emacs'), and have fallen under their own weight.

I hate to be gloomy, but I'm pretty sure that's the reason.  Someday,

another epoch or Gerd Moellmann-style effort will arise and implement

this idea or something like it, but, believe it or not, xembed is

probably an easier path.

Hope that helps,

*Chad