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12 points by adamkhrona 15 years ago · 7 comments

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teyc 15 years ago

Interesting Adam. You need to be clearer to your audience, who are presumably technical, what the product actually is.

If I read this correctly, you have refactored WebKit into an embeddable layout engine that can composite offscreen. It includes the javascript engine so it is able to render browser shots better. You also can send this bitmap to a 3D pipeline.

The selling point needs to be brought to the fore. While Internet Explorer is embeddable, it doesn't offer as good HTML5 compliance as webkit.

  • adamkhronaOP 15 years ago

    Thank you for the suggestions, I'll work on making the site more clear to a technical audience.

    Our first draft of the site was actually very heavy on the tech details but we ended up trying to dumb it down a bit to appeal to a wider audience. It's tough trying to find a good balance between the two.

    • teyc 15 years ago

      Yeah, I remembered your old site. It was on HN not too long ago. Cool stuff.

      Have you had a go at building Android Webkit for running on PCs? It'll be a lot more useful than using the Android emulator for testing web layout.

evangineer 15 years ago

AFAICT, this is an extraction of the renderer from Chrome/Chromium wrapped up in an API for C/C++/.NET.

This has been packaged as SDKs for both Windows & Mac.

  • adamkhronaOP 15 years ago

    We did indeed use Chromium as a base but have implemented a great deal of extra modifications on top to make this the ideal solution for offscreen embedding. Significant portions of the renderer, plugin containers, and Javascript system had to be re-written.

    • growt 15 years ago

      How can you charge 5.9k for source code access if it's based on open source software?

kapilkaisare 15 years ago

Nice. Linux version?

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