grailbrowser now running under python 2.5 (probably above too)

[lkcl]

source at:http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser

$ python grail.py (note the lack of "python1.5" or "python2.4")

conversion of the 80 or so regex's to re has been carried out.
entirely successfully or not is a matter yet to be determined.  always
a hoot to try browsinghttp://www.bbc.co.ukorhttp://www.youtube.com
with a browser from 11+ years ago, it still cannot be resisted as
grail is the only working graphical web browser in the world written
in pure python [pybrowser is still in development, stalled].

l.

Congratulations on this effort Luke. However you know what project i
would really like to see the community get around? ...dramatic pause
here... a cross platform Python file browser!

weeelll... you _could_ always just use grailbrowser it does still
support file:// so it lists directories, shows text files and
downloads anything it doesn't understand.

l.

 

[lkcl]

http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser

$ python grail.py (note the lack of "python1.5" or "python2.4")

conversion of the 80 or so regex's to re has been carried out.
entirely successfully or not is a matter yet to be determined.  always
a hoot to try browsinghttp://www.bbc.co.ukorhttp://www.youtube.com
with a browser from 11+ years ago, it still cannot be resisted as
grail is the only working graphical web browser in the world written
in pure python [pybrowser is still in development, stalled].

l.

Congrats!
Are you planning to take over the world with grail and pyjs?

mwahaahhah basically, yes. i'm fed up with the mozilla foundation,
who have trashed python-xpcom _just_ at the point where i demonstrated
its usefulness: the only reason things still work across linux
distributions is due to inertia as the distros are still offering
xulrunner-1.9.1, and i'm definitely fed up with the webkit developers,
one in particular, whose treatment of and attitude to the work that i
did to get python bindings to the DOM of webkit was beyond atrocious.

so, python-based web browser it is, implement the W3C DOM API with
it. hack it about, combine paul bonser's pybrowser back-end (which
was where paul did most of the work, and stalled on the front-end),
job done, one compliant python browser supporting W3C TR1,2 and 3 and
if we're reaaallly lucky i maybe add some HTML5 features too.

just don't expect it to be quick!

l.