On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 09:48:31PM -0700, Lars via Lazarus wrote: > >> port) to the point where it can provide everything needed? > ... > > +1 > > Well the reason chromium is in my line of sight, is because other people > do the work to maintain the browser for you.
True, but you also subscribe to an engine with a lot more known vulnerabilities and attack surface that way. The frequent updates that often break interfaces are also an headache. If multi versions installs are not possible or hard, that would complicate keeping old IDEs running. > Creating your own web > browser component is massive amounts of work, whereas chromium is coded by > other people. But deployment and updating is still yours, and a tad more involved. If I would replace lhelp and chm, I wouldn't go that way, but some way with a local webserver (for searching and the like), and just use whatever is installed. The best reason to have some local (whatever how limited) widget is for IDE popups of helptext instead of an external browser. But I think lhelp still has enough leeway, and I think Graeme greatly overexaggerates the problems. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
