ongoing browser projects

[Chris Angelico]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 11:43 AM, Akkana Peck <akkana at shallowsky.com> wrote:
>> On 22/07/18 21:43, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote:
>> > i need an html renderer (one of the most badly missed features of py, PEP
>> > anyone?)
>
> I think both GTK and Qt have basic HTML rendering widgets, for
> simple tasks, but if you want something that behaves more like
> a browser (javascript, link following, events), those probably
> won't be good enough.

Don't know about Qt, but the GTK one is more like "a document display
widget that happens to use HTML tags to annotate text". It can do
colour, for instance. But layout is basically just flowing text; you
can't plop down a <div> and have separate flow layout boxes. It's a
far cry from a modern web browser. Even just rendering a static web
page (no JS, no links, no events, no CSS) would be a long way beyond
it.

ChrisA