[Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Lucian Branescu
<lucian.branescu at gmail.com> wrote:
> There already is a mostly complete pywebkitgtk activity, Surf.
>
> There has been a lot of debate on whether webkit is better than gecko
> for our purposes. I also plan to only support what is reasonably easy
> to support and let the abstraction layer be leaky.
>
> This way, the new Browse can much more easily be ported to another web
> engine if needed. In fact, as the abstraction layer grows more
> complete, Browse can be 'ported' to the rest of the abstraction layer
> (as opposed to AbstractBrowser+hulahop events which would be the first
> step).
>

Something which concerns me is the relative lack of maintainer
activity for pywebkitgtk. For example,
http://code.google.com/p/pywebkitgtk/issues/detail?id=44 lists an
issue which was reported in December last year, and there has been no
feedback on it (there is a proposed patch as well). The fix for the
issue would help address a few crashers in Read in F-12 and above.
Of course, as we move to gobject-introspection and friends, this
should become less of a concern.
Thanks,
Sayamindu




> On 26 April 2010 03:20, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 18:07 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote:
>>> My GSoC project involves building an abstraction layer above
>>> pywebkitgtk/hulahop (wiki/AbstractBrowser).
>>>
>>> While the project itself isn't related, this abstraction layer and one
>>> of it's lower layers (i.e. pywebkitgtk) would become a dependency of
>>> the sugar toolkit.
>>
>> Very interesting. Would your work make it possible to switch the Browse
>> activity from XPCOM to Webkit?
>>
>> If there were no loss of features, would it be easier for you to switch
>> the Browse activty from hulahop to pywebkitgtk without developing an
>> abstraction framework for both?
>>
>> --
>>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
>>  \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
>>
>>
>



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Sayamindu Dasgupta
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