[Sugar-devel] Browse activity

[Rafael Ortiz]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Lucian Branescu <lucian.branescu at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On 18 May 2011 16:00, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Art Hunkins <abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
> >> > Yes, this is particularly crucial as there is no Browse in 0.92 Sugar.
> >> > (I
> >> > gather it is currently inoperable.) Thus there is no easy way of
> >> > downloading
> >> > Activities from the web. (I download them on another computer, copy to
> a
> >> > USB
> >> > drive, then drag to the Journal on the first computer.)
> >>
> >> Yes, it needs to be ported to the changes for xulrunner2 (firefox 4)
> >> but we now ship Surf instead for the interim at least.
> >>
> >
> > Yes? It's decided? Surf can replace Browse or we are replacing a mountain
> of
> > bugs by another different mountain?
>
> Right now Surf is incomplete. I haven't had any time to work on either
> fixing Browse bugs or finishing Surf.
>
> I do think the future is with webkit, not xulrunner2. Especially since
> Mozilla care little about embedding.
>
> For what I understand from Lucian and others with more technical knowledge
of browse, we should be aiming to do maintain releases fixing critical bugs
of browse and shifting the development efforts to surf.

But the question remains as who is going to make the releases and all the
bug fixing.


> > Gonzalo
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