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Re: [trinity-users] web browsing in TDE (was: EXE GNU/Linux dis...)

From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@...>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 22:28:20 -0500
On 2013-01-24 15:50 (GMT-0600) Timothy Pearson composed:

> Mozilla has explicitly stated that it will not support embedding Firefox
> sessions in any third party application, and has removed all programming
> hooks needed for doing so.

So Camino is no more?

>  This leaves TDE with three long-term options:
> 1.) Use Webkit (preferred)
> 2.) Investigate embedding a Chromium instance
> 2.) Completely remove the KHTML kpart (not recommended)

> I would prefer to embed a Webkit browser kpart, as I expect website
> compatibility with Webkit to increase in the future, and a full-featured
> Webkit widget already exists.

http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/dpi1920x1200x144-gecko-konq3-chromium-konq4.png 
demonstrates that there is a cost to users of high density displays when 
Webkit is used to display web content. What cannot be seen in the screenshot 
is that Chromium's behavior matches IE, Opera and Safari, which is that 
physical units don't actually exist except when physical display density is 
in fact 96 DPI. Gecko also matches that fixed 3:4 pt:px ratio, but provides a 
workaround through the proprietary mozmm unit that is unnecessary for KHTML 
to display physical units at their actual size whenever desktop DPI matches 
physical display DPI.

I vote stick to KHTML.

URL to test for yourself: http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/dpi-screen-window.html
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