[Lazarus] Gecko on lazarus

[Vincent Snijders]

Marco van de Voort schreef:
> 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.
>  

Yes, that might be useful. A lot of bug reports come from people 
throwing any chm file against lhelp assuming it will open any chm file, 
not just the lazarus help files. For those people, an escape route to 
Gecko could be offered.

>> 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.

Same for ld, everything works fine without, it is an option.

Vincent