This page contains information and conclusions about HTML widgets that we consider for using in Straw. There is now a branch in Git using documentviews.py from Wikitin which supports PyWebKitGtk, GtkMozEmbed and GtkHtml.

1. pygtkmozembed

• probably most popular widget for embedding web browser
• limited in features, provides only basic interface for interacting with the browser

2. hulahop

Gecko embedding widget based on pyxpcom.

• extensible, because of direct usage of xpcom interfaces

• requires (depends on) latest xulrunner trunk, so probably can't be shipped for months

Source: http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=projects/hulahop;a=summary

3. webkit-gdk

OLPC folks wrote some basic bindings for WebKit (see webkit-activity.tar.gz).

• we are now working on PyWebKitGtk, hopefully making it meet Straw's needs too