After many moons, I have started to work again on my personal project, Gutenbrowser. It is in need of much maintenance and love.
Since Qt finally has a good webview, QWebView, I can finally start working towards version 1.0! With very little work, gutenbrowser can now show Gutenberg Project etexts that come with images.
Since I have a macmini at home, I can distribute Mac binaries, as well as Windows and a few Linux embedded devices (Openmoko Neo and possibly Nokia’s n8×0’s Qtopia )
and with the help of Petter Reinholdtsen, fix a few bugs and be in the standard Debian distribution.
For those that do not know of the Gutenberg Project, there are over 25,000 free books available!
5 Responses to “QtWebKit and Gutenbrowser”
Hello Lorn,
Two years back I made a gutenberg reader as one of the feature of my college book cataloging application in C++/QT. Please take a look at this screenshot http://flickr.com/photos/versesane/217487284/in/set-72157604977111981/ . I would like to contribute to your project, How can I do that ?
Regards
Ankur
Aah, if only it could be built for Series 60 / Symbian. Qt/Embedded for Symbian would make that platform considerably less excruciating to work with, and make my shiny N95 much more flexible. The webkit based browser is decent but lacks obvious features like the ability to view local files.
Yes, I’m fishing for Nokia + Qt Embedded rumours.
Qt for Symbian is more likely than Linux on a Nokia phone.
And I’m still waiting for the “anaother project”:
Question: What follows the release of KDE 4? Any other major projects that you are working on currently?
Ettrich: Apart from Qt 4.5 there’s indeed another project.
Unfortunately, I can’t talk about it right now, but you will hopefully hear about it soon.
Craig Ringer:
huh? QWebKit certainly can view local files. webView->load(QUrl(”/path/to/local.html”)); works just fine. Otherwise I would not start using it.
Ankur: the gutenbrowser project page is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gutenbrowser/
lorn: Series 60 includes a browser that is, AFAIK, based on WebKit. That browser cannot, as far as I can tell, view local files - because it provides no UI for it. Webkit its self can, of course, view local files.