Difference between revisions of "Addon:HtmlView"
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Revision as of 01:31, 25 May 2020
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History The HtmlView Addon was previously part of the Gramps core plugins know as the Web Category from Version 3.2 to Version 4.1 and was hidden by default. This addons was created for use by the original geography views in gramps 3.x. |
The Html View (Web Category) allows you to browse web pages from within Gramps.
Simply type the web address, and the page will be displayed in the normal way.
Prerequisites
In order to use the Html View:
- You must ensure that the webkit module is installed
gir-webkit
- When you have done this, the new Web Category will appear the navigator.
History
- Gramps is not a web browser …. yes?, December 10th, 2008, by Benny (originally supported two backends WebKit or Mozilla ( gtkmozembed ).)
- HTML view 2015,...This module was linked to the old geography view before 3.3...I'll move it into the third-party addons repository..
- 8023 HTML view fails to load
- 11628 ..This addon is not any more supported...It will never work on windows because dependencies are too heavy ( the size of the package)...It can work only on linux if you install the prerequisite packages....This addons was created for the geography views in gramps 3.x...
- GEPS_029:_GTK3-GObject_introspection_Conversion#WebKit_for_Htmlrenderer - The htmlview requires WebKit. Introspection bindings for this is available, in Ubuntu package gir1.2-webkit-3.0
- Linux:Build_from_source#Linux_package_requirements - python-webkit python-gtkmozembed (WebKitgtk pywebkitgtk) Required for the HTML view
- Code on Github addons-source/tree/master/HtmlView the comments mention:
- Html Renderer - Can use the Webkit or Gecko ( Mozilla ) library
- We use firstly webkit if it is present. If not, we use gtkmozembed.