Sciss/SwingOSC — Issue #4: JSCWebView
Author: Sciss
Created: 2012-01-08 12:35:58+00:00
State: open
Labels: Thoughts

The first approach with the pure java implementation based on LoboBrowser was not too successful. Lobo is fine for HTML 4, but unfortunately the person that designed the new SC help system was keen to build upon full JS DOM support, and that has holes in Lobo, making the current javascript stuff break with `JSCWebView`.

I honestly have no time to fiddle around too much with the webview. Maybe the least painful approach is to use JXBrowser ( http://www.teamdev.com/jxbrowser/ ) instead, which just maps to native components (Mozilla, Safari, Chrome, or IE i think). While this should give perfect help browser support, the big disadvantage is that this is not an open source component, but proprietary. It looks as if TeamDev gives out unlimited free distribution licenses though for open source projects, so it's a matter of ethics if we go this way. What do the Linux folks think about it?