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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 01:01:27PM -0400, Bobby Powers wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Martin
>Langhoff<martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Lucian
>> Branescu<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I don't think I have the results anymore, but benches between 
>>> epiphany-webkit and epiphany-gecko were very similar.
>>
>> Lucian -- what Jonas and I are trying to say is: even if gecko is 
>> (was?) by less "performant" than webkit on a standard machine and 
>> using gecko's default settings, you _have_ to test tuned gecko vs 
>> tuned webkit.
>>
>> "Out-of-the-box" performance isn't what matters to the end user.
>>
>> I agree with you, the usual perception is that opera and webkit 
>> engines are faster / lighter than gecko. But right now, gecko-based 
>> Browse.xo is noticeably faster than opera.
>>
>> Can you prepare a hand-tuned webkit-based Browse.xo so a reasonable 
>> comparison can be made?
>
>(sorry Martin for the double post, I forgot to reply-all)
>
>While not hand-tuned, I believe on the latest rawhide-xo images (and
>Fedora 11) you can download
>http://dev.laptop.org/~bobbyp/surf/Surf-106.xo
>for a WebKit based browsing experience.  The packages pywebkitgtk and
>webkitgtk need to be installed, which they are on rawhide-xo.  Its a
>little rough around the edges (no autocomplete in the address bar, no
>downloads), but generally seems to work well.  Now that WebKit seems
>to be better supported in F11+, I can try to bundle a modified webkit
>.so that reduces memory usage as much as possible.


Concrete, direct, Sugar-based competition.  Supercool!


  - Jonas

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