[Sugar-devel] Browse and the move to WebKit

[lkcl luke]

http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2

ok: one of the issues that i ran into on the original (flawed)
webkit-gobject development work, as well as the ports of pythonwebkit
to gtk and directfb, was quite how integrated the whole thing had to
be.  there are now something like *eight* separate language bindings
to webkit (including at least two javascript ones), each of which is
in a separate state of development and even present *different*
versions of the same underlying DOM API.

it would appear that webkit2 has "injected bundles" which is a stupid
way of saying "you can install a shared library dynamically into
webkit using dlopen".

basically this means that it will at some point be able to - *without*
having any dependency or *any* interaction with the webkit team - add
language bindings and other features to webkit.

i strongly, strongly, strongly advise the OLPC team to WAIT until such
time as such code has been written, before proceeding with the use of
webkit in OLPC.

of course you are entirely free to do whatever you find to be most
useful to you, choosing instead to learn for yourselves why webkit1's
gobject introspection bindings are fundamentally flawed and spending
significant time doing so.

l.