Tkhtml
Encyclopedia
Tkhtml is an open source
layout engine
written in C
using the Tk widget toolkit
. It is used primarily by the Html Viewer 3 (hv3) minimalist web browser
.
On 7 September 2006, it was announced that a public build of Tkhtml Alpha 10 had passed the Acid2
test.
/tk
needs to be installed. The standard wish interpreter needs to be replaced by the wwwish tk interpreter to uses the WYSIWYG
previewing function.
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
layout engine
Layout engine
A web browser engine, , is a software component that takes marked up content and formatting information and displays the formatted content on the screen. It "paints" on the content area of a window, which is displayed on a monitor or a printer...
written in C
C (programming language)
C is a general-purpose computer programming language developed between 1969 and 1973 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system....
using the Tk widget toolkit
Widget toolkit
In computing, a widget toolkit, widget library, or GUI toolkit is a set of widgets for use in designing applications with graphical user interfaces...
. It is used primarily by the Html Viewer 3 (hv3) minimalist web browser
Web browser
A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...
.
History
TkHTML version 1 was written using the XF application builder, but because of functionality reasons this part was rewritten.On 7 September 2006, it was announced that a public build of Tkhtml Alpha 10 had passed the Acid2
Acid2
Acid2 is a test page published and promoted by the Web Standards Project to expose web page rendering flaws in web browsers and other applications that render HTML. Named after the acid test for gold, it was developed in the spirit of Acid1, a relatively narrow test of compliance with the Cascading...
test.
System requirements
To run Tkhtml tclTcl
Tcl is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. Originally "born out of frustration", according to the author, with programmers devising their own languages intended to be embedded into applications, Tcl gained acceptance on its own...
/tk
Tk (framework)
Tk is an open source, cross-platform widget toolkit that provides a library of basic elements for building a graphical user interface in many different programming languages....
needs to be installed. The standard wish interpreter needs to be replaced by the wwwish tk interpreter to uses the WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product...
previewing function.