wxHTML question

[Peter Agricola]

"Kevin Ollivier" wrote:
>> Is there any indication of either when this will be available or from
>> whence it can already be fetched for platforms other than OS X?  It
>> seems like the current wxWebKitCtrl class is only a wrapper for people
>> already on OS X.
>
> It's still very new, but you can find instructions on getting it and 
> building it from here:
>
>> On 6/13/07, Vadim Zeitlin <vadim at wxwidgets.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:50:12 -0500 Greg Hellings 
>>> <greg.hellings at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> GH> If there are no plans to include a heavy-weight wx-native HTML 
>>> renderer
>>>
>>>  AFAIU the new plan is to use wxWebKitCtrl on all platforms. I'd  still
>>> prefer to be able to use wxIE under Windows and something Gecko- based 
>>> under
>>> Unix but as I don't have any time at all to work on it myself I  can 
>>> hardly
>>> do anything about it.

I can understand why someone would choose one control to embed, especially 
in the case of a html viewer, wich is actually 'invisible' from a platform 
point of view in contrary to eg. a button.
Just out of curiosity, why was webkit chosen over gecko?


Peter