Mozilla binding

[Alex Martin Ugalde]

Anyone knows if it exists some Ruby binding to Mozilla?

My goal is to render HTML pages in Ruby using the Gecko engine, like
Python does with PythonMoz (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygtkmoz/).

Regards,
Alex

 

[Paul Duncan]

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Anyone knows if it exists some Ruby binding to Mozilla?
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My goal is to render HTML pages in Ruby using the Gecko engine, like
Python does with PythonMoz (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pygtkmoz/).

There's a gtkmozembed binding on RAA at
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=3Dgtkembedmoz, but it hasn't been
updated since 2001. Also, both the project page and the download URL
redirect to... nothing.

Most people doing GTK+ development are using GTK+ 2.0 now-a-days, and
gtkmozembed has been ported to GTK+ 2.0. If you want to use it, you'll
probably need to write bindings for it. The header only has about 40
functions, so it shouln't take more than a day or two to wrap.

If writing bindings isn't your cup of tea, you might be able to use
KHTML instead. I don't do Qt or KDE, so I can't provide any help in
that area.

Hope this helps...

Regards,
Alex

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[Bauduin Raphael]

There's a gtkmozembed binding on RAA at
http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=gtkembedmoz, but it hasn't been
updated since 2001. Also, both the project page and the download URL
redirect to... nothing.

Most people doing GTK+ development are using GTK+ 2.0 now-a-days, and
gtkmozembed has been ported to GTK+ 2.0. If you want to use it, you'll
probably need to write bindings for it. The header only has about 40
functions, so it shouln't take more than a day or two to wrap.

If writing bindings isn't your cup of tea, you might be able to use
KHTML instead. I don't do Qt or KDE, so I can't provide any help in
that area.

I can only recommend using Ruby with the QtBindings if you can use it.
It was easy to get a useful application fast (although I didn't know Qt
and I never really programed GUI apps).

The tutorial of the KDE bindings even show how to write a browser (in,
what, 80 lines?):
http://developer.kde.org/language-bindings/ruby/kde3tutorial/p4.html

Raph

 

[Jeffrey Dik]

Hi,

As far as I know, there aren't any ruby bindings to Mozilla. However,
the ruby bindings of gtkhtml2 (part of the ruby-gnome2 project) worked
quite well for me. I don't think gtkhtml2 is as powerful as the gecko
engine, but when I hacked together a RSS reader a year or so ago, it
rendered pages just fine.

It would be nice to see a rubygtkmoz. Surf the web with Rubyfox
Jeff

 

[Alex Martin Ugalde]

Hi Jeff,

It would be nice to see a rubygtkmoz. Surf the web with Rubyfox

I did before the post, but it seems to be abandonware.

As far as I know, there aren't any ruby bindings to Mozilla. However,
the ruby bindings of gtkhtml2 (part of the ruby-gnome2 project) worked
quite well for me.

I'll try it, i hope it suits my needs

Thanks!
Alex

 

[Alex Martin Ugalde]

Hi Paul,

probably need to write bindings for it. The header only has about 40
functions, so it shouln't take more than a day or two to wrap.

It could be a good way.

If writing bindings isn't your cup of tea, you might be able to use
KHTML instead. I don't do Qt or KDE, so I can't provide any help in
that area.

This how i'm doing it now, but i don't like it too much because it
wastes time: launch it, writing and read the html rendered image.

Hope this helps...

It does

Thanks
Alex