webclient on mac OS X -- almost there

[John Harris]

As I mentioned in earlier emails to this group, a few of the developers on
the Jalama Project (http://jalama.ecoinformatics.org/) have been working
on porting the webclient 1.3 to the MAC OS X and though we are not
completely done we are at a point where the software is usable and
satisfies the needs of embedding our xul application within a java canvas.
We have the webclient running with the CAMINO_0_7_RELEASE mozilla release
with full rendering and navigation
(http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~harris/cocoa_webclient.png) functionality but
need another week to tie up some loose-ends before contributing our
changes to the webclient project.

We started the port by populating our CVS repository with the webclient
1.3 code, modified it to compile with the Gtk windowing API and then added
native rendering via the Cocoa NSView widget. In the process we did make
small modifications to the webclient architecture and in places rewrote
existing C++ code in Objective-C inorder to communicate directly with the
Cocoa widgets. Currently we are looking into integrating the Objective-C
code that we have introduced more tightly into the existing webclient
code to terminate any redundancies.

PS: I am sorry to not have seen the webclient talk at JavaOne yesterday --
I hope that it went well.

John

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John Harris
National Center for Ecological
Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)
735 State St. Ste. 303
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
805-892-2531
har...@nceas.ucsb.edu
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