Touchscreen web browser

**Tidder** · 09-30-2009, 11:01 PM

I believe it's the same rendering engine that's used in Safari and Google Chrome.

**Tidder** · 10-01-2009, 12:14 AM

Some initial documentation for Carbon:

http://www.revfe.org/index.php/Carbon

**tripzero** · 10-01-2009, 12:43 AM

Yes, Carbon uses WebKit. I'm not sure what Qt uses for javascript rendering. Probably their internal stuff which isn't that fast. Hopefully future versions of Qt will have faster javascript rendering like chrome does.

**malcom2073** · 10-01-2009, 05:35 AM

Originally Posted by PaulF

1. It thinks .php is an unknown type and wants to download it.
2. What rendering engine is this using?
3. Awesome job so far!
4. Will you be releasing the source code?

1: Eventually it will remember which ones you say to display, and which ones to download. I'll add php to the permanent list.
2: As Kev said, it's using WebKit.
3: Thanks!
4: The source code for a Linux version will be included in RevFE, but it won't be standalone. I don't see much reason to release the source of the windows version unless anyone really wants it for reasons other than novelty, since the lgpl licence of Qt allows this.

The next version will hopefully have a REAL bookmarking system that you can edit and add to, as well as image skinning support. Yay for Tidder working on some documentation :-D

**Tidder** · 10-01-2009, 10:44 AM

Originally Posted by kev000

Yes, Carbon uses WebKit. I'm not sure what Qt uses for javascript rendering. Probably their internal stuff which isn't that fast. Hopefully future versions of Qt will have faster javascript rendering like chrome does.

Jeeze, do you ever have nothing to complain about?

**tripzero** · 10-01-2009, 11:35 AM

Jeeze, do you ever have nothing to complain about?

Possibly... I don't know everything yet, but when I do, i'll know whether or not there is something not to complain about :P Until then, bacon is the only thing that i really can't complain about.

**malcom2073** · 10-01-2009, 11:36 AM

If you ever managed to know everything, you'd complain there's nothing else to learn

**malcom2073** · 10-04-2009, 10:48 AM

Here's a small preview of the image based skinning. I have no clue where I got these images from I had them laying around on the hard drive, so forgive me if they're a bit dumb. I didn't add this to the first post because this is just a release candidate to show the concept, and shouldn't really be used in-car.

**PaulF** · 10-04-2009, 12:14 PM

I'm fairly interested in the windows source code since I'm programming my own front end (no front ends work well enough for some of my car's features).

New issue: Loading gmail.com results in a "loading failed" message.

**PaulF** · 10-04-2009, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by malcom2073

1: Eventually it will remember which ones you say to display, and which ones to download. I'll add php to the permanent list.

I think I can save you some time here...
You don't want to put the page types in by file extension, you want to use the content types.
That way, I can put a file up: index.mp3carrocks and if the web server sends it with an html content type, it loads as html. If it loads with a text type, it just shows it and if it loads with an application/octet stream type, it downloads it.