[Lazarus] Gecko on lazarus

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Wed Nov 11 21:28:49 CET 2009


On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 02:52:46PM +0100, Vincent Snijders wrote:
> If the internal (pascal) renderer is good enough, nobody will use the external Gecko 
> renderer. OTOH, some people want to trade speed and resources for a better rendering 
> in some cases.

I think the internal renderer should and could be perfect (read fast,without
any serious layout problems) for the own generated docs, because they are
simple and we control both sides.

Then there could be  an override option to open topics external CHMs with a full browser.
 
> You can compare it (a bit) with the internal and external (gnu ld) linker in the 
> windows compiler. Nobody uses the external linker on windows, except if you think 
> there is a bug in the internal linker (or are using the external assembler for 
> debugging purposes).

Good analogy. Though I shouldn't need to install such a browser (or even
configure it) if I don't want to use it. It should be totally optional.




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