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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Warning: changes in khtml
From:       Lars Knoll <Lars.Knoll () mpi-hd ! mpg ! de>
Date:       1999-11-29 7:42:28
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On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> >David Faure wrote:
> >> On Sun, Nov 28, 1999 at 01:32:55PM -0700, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> >> > Simon Hausmann wrote:
> >> > > That's why we decided to leave things as is (not to break stuff for
> >> > > Krash) and finish the port of khtmlwidget to become a full fledged
> >> > > BrowserView after Krash.
> >> > 
> >> > By 'BrowserView', I hope you are referring to KParts?
> >> Not yet.
> >> The current BrowserView is what allows to embed in konqueror.
> >> Currently it's not related to KParts,
> >
> >Yes, I know :-)
> >
> >> but the KParts beind developed in kdenonbeta (a less-koffice-specific
> >> KParts) will allows BrowserView to be based on it.
> >
> >Okay.. now Simon was referring to *after* KRASH.  It was my assumption
> >that Konqueror would be based on KParts... hence my question.
> >
> >So let's say that it is now after KRASH and BrowserView now uses
> >KParts as the back-end.  A few questions:
> >
> >1) Will the BrowserView API change at all?  That is, will current
> >   BrowserView parts have to be rewritten?
> >
> >2) Will apps OTHER than Konqueror be able to embed the BrowserView
> >   parts?  For instance, will my MyCoolApp be able to embed a
> >   kghostview part?  Or will BrowserView still be very specific to
> >   Konqueror?
> 
> While speaking about that - will it be possible then to embed kghostview inot a
> KOffice part - that would be cool!!!!!!

As far as I understod the new concept, yes. There's no real difference
between konqueror parts and koffice parts in the new approach anymore
(except the konqueror parts being readonly). So you can embed khtml (which
will become a kpart) or even a java applet in koffice.

Cheers,
Lars

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