By Xan López. Do you want to write native looking GNOME applications while at the same time using all the compelling recent additions to the web arsenal like HTML5 or CSS3? In this talk we’ll use WebkitGTK+’s well-integrated GObject DOM bindings to get direct access to the well-known DOM APIs for building truly integrated hybrid GNOME applications.

1. Hybrid Desktop/Web
applications with
WebKitGTK+

2. Xan López

6. What this talk is not about

7. Transformative effect of the
Web in apps

8. Facebook, Twitter, Google...

9. The Cloud

10. It's about...

11. Web as a platform is winning

12. Why?

13. It's everywhere

14. Reach a massive audience

16. Reasonable learning curve

17. If the trend continues...

18. The Web will be the dominant
platform in the future

19. Not GNOME

20. You might say

21. Not very different from now

22. You'd be right!

23. We can try to do something
about it

24. Step 1

25. WebKit

26. WebKit + GNOME

27. WebKitGTK+

28. Use the platform

29. Native widgets

30. WebKitWebView

31. Browsers, IM clients, Email
clients, Help display, ...

32. Problem

33. No easy way to access and
modify web content

34. Step 2

35. DOM

36. JavaScript bindings

37. var e = document.getElementById(“foo”);
e.style.color = “red”;

38. Actually...

39. “The DOM is designed to be used with any
programming language. In order to provide a
precise, language-independent specification to the
DOM interfaces, we have chosen to define the
specification in OMG IDL”
DOM Level 1 Specification

40. OMG IDL!

41. Object Management Group
Interface Definition Language

43. Access the DOM from
Gobject/C (and other
languages)

44. DEMO

45. Work in progress

46. Unstable releases already
available with GObject DOM
bindings (since 1.3.0)

47. Next stable release 1.4.0
(around March next year with
GNOME 3.0)

48. Join us!
#webkit & #webkit-gtk at
Freenode IRC
webkit.org and webkitgtk.org

49. That's it!