[Sugar-devel] Request to add webkitgtk as a external dependency

[Lucian Branescu]

Many people report WebKit to be faster and my own benchmarks seem to
confirm that.

I think it would be great if there were some browser API for
activities that could use both hulahop and pywebkitgtk. This way, the
best overall engine at the time can be used.

2009/7/15 Bryan Berry <bryan at olenepal.org>:
> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 23:41 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>> I initially tried out whatever I wanted to do with Gecko, however, it
>> looks like performance can be degraded quite a bit with larger books.
>> To ensure proper pagination (the current form of Read depends on the
>> document being properly and consistently broken up into pages), I need
>> to pre-render the entire book beforehands to get an idea of the
>> dimensions (under a predefined set of graphics settings, so that the
>> dimensions come out in a device/screen independent manner). However,
>> with large books like War and Peace (which consists of more than 350
>> XHTML files), the basic pre-rendering code takes around 18 seconds
>> with Gecko (using Hulahop) and around 2 seconds with Webkit. This is
>> on my desktop machine - I did not try the comparison on an XO-1. All
>> the pages are quite simple, with no images, and minimalistic
>> formatting.
>
> I side w/ Sayamindu on this. Rendering native texts in a reasonable
> amount of time is really important for a lot of parts of the world. I
> can certainly say it is for South Asia. If webkit speeds up rendering of
> indic scripts by a factor of 9, then it is worth having two browser
> engines IMHO.
>
>> WebkitGTK seems to fast gaining acceptance among application
>> developers
>
> I see the same.
>
> --
> Bryan W. Berry
> Technology Director
> OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org
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