Re: HtmlView vs WebView

[gbWilly <gbWilly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday, May 24th, 2025 at 16:31, Lee <t.lee.davidson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 5/23/25 3:28 PM, gbWilly wrote:
> 
> > Maybe I need to reformulate the question that Bruce brings to attention.
> > 
> > What is the proper use of htmlview.url?
> > - Feeding it a online url doesn't seem to work
> 
> 
> It doesn't work because HtmlView does not download the actual content of the document at the specified URL. It can display only
> content that is locally available. To view a document located on the internet, one would need to pre-fetch the content (like
> with HttpClient), save it to a local document, and then view that content with HtmlView.
> 
> I hope that was understandable.

I already understood that form Fabien's answer and it makes logic as there is indeed no mecanism in htmlview to get to online httml files.

> 
> > - Feeding it a local path to some index.html seems to work
> > And yes, css is partially supported, I know.
> > So, a page not showing = ccs not understood?
> 
> 
> No, a page not showing means there is no content available to display.
> 
> > And html viewer (read only or not) in my book means "show me the webpage"
> 
> 
> Perhaps try to think of it as meaning "show me the HTML document".

That is kind of what a meant with webpage the actual singe page on a web, but HTML document is a better formulation.

> 
> > So, there is quite some confusion IMHO, at least at my sied about the URL property.
> 
> 
> Yes, and as Bruce suggested, Path might be a less confusing name for that property.

I got fooled as I have been working with qt4.webkit in the past and webview currently, where URL is used as well.
I never ever used htmlview, but someone on the gambas one forum didn't get that to work on hit olders Apple systems, the newer did work.
So, I suggested webtkit (with the side note it wouldn't be in debian 13 as dependecies are no longer present there) and that worked on these system, where webview gave a black screen.
Because of webkit not being a long term solution I suggested to have a look at htmlview, and that's when the confusion began...

Bruce did clarify on the wiki what is is supposed to do. It seems more suided for showing local help in html or something like that, without the need of something like webview.

Thanks Lee (and Fabien is his earlier post)

gbWilly