Writing a browser in three rows

cjg — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:39:43 +0000

We reached a new record: writing a browser in three rows! After python I decided to test also WebKit bindings for ruby:

[kaltura-widget wid="jr0a2p7nrk" width="410" height="364" addpermission="0" editpermission="3" /]

And these are the three rows:

require 'webkit'
Gtk::Window.new().add(wv = Gtk::WebKit::WebView.new).show_all
Thread.new do Gtk.main end

As you can see from the video to open a webpage you have to write wv.open(“URL”) to the irb prompt.

Writing a browser in less than a minute

cjg — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:58:50 +0000

I wanted just to test WebKit, but instead of getting a browser based on that project I decided to test directly the (gtk) widget using python and I was impressed how it is simple and fast embedding a full functional web browser in any kind of application!

[kaltura-widget wid="vzjollzqgu" width="410" height="364" addpermission="0" editpermission="0" /]

The source used in this video is (almost):

import webkit
import gtk
 
wv = webkit.WebView()
w = gtk.Window()
w.add(wv)
w.show_all()
wv.open("http://cjg.cruxppc.org")
gtk.main()

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Giuseppe Coviello » webkit

Writing a browser in three rows

Writing a browser in less than a minute