This is the way free software is supposed to work. I think.) Of course, thanks to the way packages and frameworks work on OS X, anybody who wants to build their own version of WebCore or JavaScriptCore and ship it with their application is free do to so. (WebCore presents an Objective C interface, so it's callable from Cocoa, but not from Carbon. In addition to being a really cool way to get in there and start playing with the new frameworks, this illustrates just how easy it's going to be for OmniGroup to build their browser.Īt some point in the future, Apple may even choose to ship amework and amework as part of the core OS, so anybody can use them to render HTML and handle JavaScript in their Cocoa applications.
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I've just posted a journal article describing how to use custom-built JavaScriptCore and WebCore frameworks with Safari. I feel kinda dirty replying to my own post like this, but I wanted to offer more details on this to anybody who's interested. Amusingly, PowerIE - nothing but an IE extension, not a whole browser like CB is - has a download almost as big as CB itself, which I think nicely illustrates how much being able to use shared html rendering libraries can help things here.)Īll you have to do to take advantage of a new version of WebCore is to link in the new framework when it becomes available. It looks like it might be interesting but having to learn about it through a popup like this is rude - but then I'm not typing this from a popup blocking browser, so I get what I deserve I guess. (Annoyingly, you can't get to the CB home page without being forced to accept a popup for one of this company's other products, PowerIE. CB (a silly name, but hey what can you do) enhances IE with features like tabbed browsing & popup blocking, and yet the download is only 700kb because most of the grunt work is done by the IE libraries, so the CB code is probably all interface stuff (it's freeware, but not open source, so that's just a guess).Īnyone interested in learning more about how IE can be extended (as closed source but semi-open APIs) may want to get in touch with the CB people, though I have no idea if they'd want to talk shop. Like Phoenix or Chimera, Crazy Browser is a "new" web browser, but this one is built on the Internet Explorer instead of Gecko. As a case in point, check out Crazy Browser.
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