Browser control for Linux

Laisvunas · Post by **Laisvunas** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:09 pm

Hi,

I have a newbie question about browser control in RuntimeRevolution:

is there browser control for Linux?

I know that on Windows RuntimeRevolution embeds Internet Explorer and on Mac embeds Safari, but what situation on Linux?

Thanks.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 9:46 pm

Hi Laisvunas,

There is no browser external for Linux.

Best,

Mark

Laisvunas · Post by **Laisvunas** » Fri Jan 11, 2008 7:57 am

Hi,

That unfortunately means that feature parity with Linux as with the other supported platforms is not delivered even with RuntimeRevolution 2.9 release.

May be there are any ideas or plans/projects concerning browser control for Linux?

ale870 · Post by **ale870** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:23 am

I'm interested also in browser for Linux.
Are there any updates or plans about it?
Now Linux has powerful browsers like Opera, Firefox, etc...
Gecko engine, Safari engine, Opera engine (I do not remember the engine name, sorry) work very well in Linux.

Thank you.

jenelia · Post by **jenelia** » Sat May 30, 2009 9:20 am

What framework would you find the most useful for embedding a browser control in your development project(s) on the linux and/or osx platforms.
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ale870 · Post by **ale870** » Sat May 30, 2009 12:47 pm

I think Gecko engine or Safari WebKit are the most powerful and cross-platform engines. However I don't know what's the porting progress about WebKit.

I know there is Epiphany web browser based on both of them (webkit and gecko).

I think RunRev Linux-version needs to be "aligned" with Windows/Mac version.

RunRev has a BIG potential, and consider that on Linux do not exist really powerful 2D multimedia engine with 4th generation languages (even if several c++ 2d/3d engines exist, or a few other ones based on Basic, like FreeBasic/BlitzMax/PureBasic), but Revolution is quite different.
It's multimedia development is really fast and productive, with a high rate of benefits/costs.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat May 30, 2009 12:57 pm

ale870,

You're responding to spam.

Mark

ale870 · Post by **ale870** » Sat May 30, 2009 12:59 pm

What? Really?!

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat May 30, 2009 1:02 pm

Yup :-)

ale870 · Post by **ale870** » Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:00 pm

Hello,

are there any news (maybe with Run Rev 4.0!!!) about a browser control for linux?
Now there is even the possibility to compile webkit engine in linux too....

arombauts · Post by **arombauts** » Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:52 pm

ale870 wrote:Hello,

are there any news (maybe with Run Rev 4.0!!!) about a browser control for linux?
Now there is even the possibility to compile webkit engine in linux too....

Using runRev 4.0.0 -dp-3 and generating a standalone containing a browser control I get an error if I generate a Linux standalone...