[IAEP] Browse version using Webkit2

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Testing old version of Browse in community version images, I can't
reproduce bug #12866
If we could solve the connectivity / collaboration issues...

Gonzalo

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godiard at sugarlabs.org>
wrote:

> I was trying to find a solution for the problem of Browse in XO-1.
> After try use a old version of Browse, based in gecko,
> and recompile the dependencies without success, I started to work in the
> port of Browse from WebKit to WebKit2.
>
> That will not work in Fedora 18 (because Webkit2 crash in F18),
> but could solve the problem in the new community
> images based in Fedora 20.
>
> I have a basic version working, still with a lot of errors, but is
> possible navigate,
> download and see pdf  files and multimedia files.
> A testing version (not for distribution) is here [1]
>
> TESTING:
> I can't connect to internet with my XO-1 with the community edition image,
> if anybody can, please test this version and verify if this bug [2] is
> still present
> and if the activity crashes.
> Report any error you find.
> Known issues:
> * History is not restored.
> * Ugly error messages
>
> DEVELOPMENT:
> The porting is done in the branch webkit2 [3]
> Master will only receive critical fixes. When the port is ready, will be
> merged in master.
> Code pending to port is identified by a a comment "# TODO PORT"
> I found some blockers I couldn't solve yet:
> * The objects where the information about the history is stored
> have read only properties (title and url), I can recreate the history
> with the data stored in the journal metadata.
> * Need a mechanism to configure where download files, right now
> is done in the Downloads directory and later copied to the journal.
> * The error callback function in browser.py receive a int instead of
> a GError. Looks as a introspection error.
> * Don't know how store the coockies needed by the xs server with the new
> API.
>
>
> [1] http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/activities/Browse-158.xo
> [2] https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12866
> [3] https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/commits/webkit2
> [4]
> http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/stable/WebKitBackForwardListItem.html
> --
> Gonzalo Odiard
>
> SugarLabs - Software for children learning
>



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Gonzalo Odiard

SugarLabs - Software for children learning
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