Tkhtml is a discontinued

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browser engine A browser engine (also known as a layout engine or rendering engine) is a core software component of every major web browser. The primary job of a browser engine is to transform HTML documents and other resources of a web page into an interactiv ...

written in C using the Tk

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. It was used primarily by the Html Viewer 3 (Hv3) minimalist

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. Version 1 was written using the XF application builder, but because of functionality reasons this part was rewritten. In 2006, it was announced that a public build of Tkhtml Alpha 10 had passed the

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test. To run Tkhtml, the

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/ Tk framework needed to be installed. Then the standard

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needed to be replaced by the wwwish interpreter to use the

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previewing function. Tkhtml can still be run through the use of bindings to other programming languages. The TkinterWeb package, for example, can be used to embed Tkhtml in Python applications.

References

External links

Tkhtml Home Page

TkinterWeb
{{HTML editors Free layout engines Free HTML editors Web browsers Free software programmed in Tcl Software that uses Tk (software) Software using the BSD license