[Sugar-devel] webkit, hulahop; developing apps using browser engine DOM for widgets

[Martin Langhoff]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <
lkcl at lkcl.net> wrote:

> (...)
> once done, you'd be able to pretty much drop the exact same olpc
> browser onto KHTML, webkit or xul.  and, other than the c++
> rtti-related bugs in KHTML, you'd get exactly the same functionality.


Cool. Things are getting better indeed.

Two things to consider when looking at this...

 - Startup, memory use and general responsiveness on XO hardware and general
netbook hw. The current Browse.xo compares _very_ favourably with Firefox
and Opera on XO-1 hardware.

 - Behaviour in non-standard-dpi screens the require scaling. The XO screens
have 200dpi physical pixels, with a 'perceived dpi' of ~133px. Currently
gecko suffers a lot due to how images end up being scaled -- see the
discussion in http://wiki.laptop.org/go/HTML_canvas_performance -- and this
is bound to affect other hardware as well.

cheers,



m
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