There are typically 3 types of usage of an HTML widget in most programing languages or libraries.
The following table lists known HTML widgets, all mostly for the 1st type of usage mentioned above.
Libraries containing an HTML widget or standalone HTML widgets | ||||||||
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Project Name | Latest release | HTML | css | image | table | js | sloc | Description |
tkhtml3 | Alpha till 2009 | HTMl 4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 53,656 | By Dan Kennedy, Tkhtml3 as a Tk widget supports HTML, CSS and javascript |
tkhtml2 [L1 ] | 2002 | No | Yes | Yes | No | 59,982 | By D. Richard Hipp, Tkhtml2 is faster and more lightweight than Tkhtml3 | |
Iwidgets | 2010 | HTML 3.2 | Yes | The library has scrolledhtml widget. Itself is part of incrtcl project. | ||||
TkWebView | 2009 | No | Yes | Yes | No | 1344 | A script-level widget for displaying HTML, either in a standalone window or embedded in another widget. This product is based on html_display, which is a decade older. | |
http://www.msen.com/%7Eclif/RP_Updates.html%|%HTML_display%|% | 04/1999 | HTML 2.0 | No | Yes | Yes | No | 1067 | Supports all HTML/2.0 features, including forms. By 2000, one year after its original author stopped working on this product, Flynt Consulting Services further developed on it and later released it under the new name "TkWebView". |
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/%7Esls/woa/distrib/%|%SNTL%|% | 1996 | A general Tcl library of procedures containing code for HTML rendering | ||||||
Applications that contain their own HTML widgets | ||||||||
Project Name | Latest release | HTML | css | image | table | js | sloc | Description |
AlphaTcl WWW menu [L2 ] | 12/2008 | Effectively a text-only HTML widget which can be used for lynx-like web browsing (all implemented in Tcl). When run under Alphatk, the underlying widget is Tk's text. | ||||||
Historical Software Projects no longer available on the Internet | ||||||||
Project Name | Latest release | HTML | css | image | table | js | sloc | Description |
TkGecko | concept till 2000 | HTML 4 | A project to embed gecko engine as a widget | |||||
tkhtml | long time ago | written by D. Richard Hipp. The current tkhtml project is a new project under the same name. | ||||||
chtml of Georage P.S. | 09/2004 | An HTML widget that parses and renders basic HTML | ||||||
hush | 10/1998 | C++ API for Tcl/Tk. Offer many widgets including an HTML widget. Requires Tcl 7.34, Tk 3.6, and TkPixmap extension. | ||||||
PTUI | A Tkinter-based IDE for Python, not Tcl. It includes an HTML viewer based on text. |