From: Jeffrey Dik <jeffrey.dik@...>
Date: 2005-01-14T11:10:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Mozilla binding

Hi,

As far as I know, there aren't any ruby bindings to Mozilla.  However,
the ruby bindings of gtkhtml2 (part of the ruby-gnome2 project) worked
quite well for me.  I don't think gtkhtml2 is as powerful as the gecko
engine, but when I hacked together a RSS reader a year or so ago, it
rendered pages just fine.

It would be nice to see a rubygtkmoz.  Surf the web with Rubyfox :-)
Jeff

On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 05:51:13AM +0900, Bauduin Raphael wrote:
> Paul Duncan wrote:
> >* Alex Martin Ugalde (alex.martin@eresmas.com) wrote:
> >
> >>Anyone knows if it exists some Ruby binding to Mozilla?
> >>
> >>My goal is to render HTML pages in Ruby using the Gecko engine, like
> >>Python does with PythonMoz (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygtkmoz/).
> >
> >
> >There's a gtkmozembed binding on RAA at
> >http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=gtkembedmoz, but it hasn't been
> >updated since 2001.  Also, both the project page and the download URL
> >redirect to... nothing.
> >
> >Most people doing GTK+ development are using GTK+ 2.0 now-a-days, and
> >gtkmozembed has been ported to GTK+ 2.0.  If you want to use it, you'll
> >probably need to write bindings for it.  The header only has about 40
> >functions, so it shouln't take more than a day or two to wrap.
> >
> >If writing bindings isn't your cup of tea, you might be able to use
> >KHTML instead.  I don't do Qt or KDE, so I can't provide any help in
> >that area.
> 
> I can only recommend using Ruby with the QtBindings if you can use it. 
> It was easy to get a useful application fast (although I didn't know Qt 
> and I never really programed GUI apps).
> 
> The tutorial of the KDE bindings even show how to write a browser (in, 
> what, 80 lines?): 
> http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ruby/kde3tutorial/p4.html
> 
> Raph
> 
> >
> >Hope this helps...
> >
> >
> >>Regards,
> >>Alex
> >
> >
> 
>