Hi. I decided that it's time to write here about my work. I'm working on an implementation of MSHTML using Gecko (Mozilla's engine) API. Results of this work you can see here: http://members.lycos.co.uk/merplayers/wine/ Yes, it is Internet Explorer on Mozilla's engine under Wine! At last... it doesn't work as nice as one can think looking at the picture... but it starts to work.
I'd like to do it using Linux Mozilla, but to do it I'd need to pass GtkWidget to Gecko. So AFAIK there is no way to do it in an acceptable way for Wine. If there is, please let me know.
Gecko API is based on XPCOM that is quite similar to MSCOM. We cannot use Gecko's headers as they are designed for C++, but I wrote idl files that can be used by widl to generate binary-compatibile headers. Fortunetly, excluding interfaces, we can do everything using only C functions. Currently Wine's implementayion uses Mozilla ActiveX Comtrol. It's enough for some applications using it as replacement of WebBrowser Control, yet I don't know anyone using it as replacement of HTMLDocument (and it won't work as this is control, not document).
This code needs a lot of cleanup and I need to remove temporary hacks, but I think it's time to start sending patches. Unfortunetly I'll be out next week and this week I won't have much time. This week I'll send only some simple code, and later will come more.
Just wanted let you know:) Jacek
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Jacek Caban