Can the Browser use the WebKit renderer on GTK?
As of Eclipse/SWT 3.6 the Browser can use WebKitGTK+ (the GTK+ port of WebKit) as its native renderer. To use it the following must be true: • WebKitGTK 1.1.90 or newer is in the library path • Ubuntu 10.04 ships with this WebKitGTK+ version, so this requirement is automatically satisfied on this Linux distro • On Linux distros that do not ship a WebKitGTK+ with this version or newer you will need to compile WebKitGTK+ from source, and add its resulting .libs directory to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. • Set java property “org.eclipse.swt.browser.UseWebKitGTK” to “true” • (optional) Add line “Device.DEBUG=true;” to your app so that the native renderer version being used will be written to stdout • Create your Browser instance with the usual SWT.NONE style Note that as of Eclipse/SWT 3.7 it is planned for WebKitGTK+ to become the default Browser renderer on Linux, assuming it is detected at runtime. If it is not detected at runtime then the Browser will revert to its Mozilla
