3 messages in com.googlegroups.android-internalsRe: WebView API's and getting the DOM...
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Yevgen Borodin06 Jan 2008 12:45 
themodernlife28 Feb 2008 07:30 
themodernlife28 Feb 2008 07:49 
Subject:Re: WebView API's and getting the DOM tree out of the browser
From:themodernlife (them@gmail.com)
Date:02/28/2008 07:30:09 AM
List:com.googlegroups.android-internals

I have asked about this repeatedly in the developers group with no success. I also brought this up with some Google people at one of their "Code Days" but I still haven't heard anything back.

On Jan 6, 3:45 pm, Yevgen Borodin <boro@gmail.com> wrote:

Our would-be web browsing application relies heavily on theDOMtree and page layout and needs to control of the browser, e.g. following links, scrolling the viewable area.

Android web browser is based on the open source WebKit browser. It is reasonable to assume that WebKit provides the desired APIs, like any other browser, e.g. IE, FireFox, etc. For example with Firefox, we are able to get all we need through Firefox Extensions, or Java wrappers (e.g. JREX).

Android browser has its own wrapper called WebView, which is NOT open source? WebView provides Java API's to the browser, but the APIs do not have what we need. :( We could extend the WebView with the functionalities that we need, but that would require having WebView sources and knowing how to compile JNI for Android.

Does our project die here or can Google do something about this?

Thanks,