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WebKit/EFL 0.1 released
André Pedralho just announced at enlightenment-devel mail list that his team at INdT released Webkit-EFL 0.1, the first release of this integration project.
Webkit-EFL brings together the power of webkit rendering engine to EFL applications, integrating with ecore main loop, evas canvas and input system as well as themes using edje. Rendering is done using cairo and networking uses curl, so shares base components with other webkit ports as GTK.
Similarly to Edje and Elementary, everything is exposed to developers as Evas_Object, so you can swallow, clip and go as crazy as you would with any other object. In fact, it's double-buffered using an internal image object. That is good since you can resize, clip, fade and move without paying re-render price, but be aware that it can add some overhead for pages with heavy animations (nothing comes for free, sorry ;-))
The code was developed mainly by INdT/Manaus. It is hosted at gitorious so it's easy to clone and contribute, as well as rebase with upstream webkit, which they do on a regular basis.
We have a sample browser using webkit-efl in svn, it's called Eve and lives under PROTO/eve, please join development so we can have great integration of Enlightenment and web technologies, rendering web content inside our apps.
For more information see André's co-worker page: http://tonikitoo.blogspot.com/2009/06/webkitefl-01-released.html
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