[Sugar-devel] Browse and the move to WebKit

[Gonzalo Odiard]

You was replying a thread from Jun/2011. In this time the developers worked
in a Browse
version based in webkit.

Gonzalo

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:06 AM, lkcl luke <luke.leighton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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