[Sugar-devel] Chromium integration inside the sugar shell (was Re: Kicking off HTML5 activities work)

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 17 April 2013 19:20, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > But is WebKit so much better? For example the WebKit2 decision _seems_ to
> > have been made by Apple engineers without even talking to major
> > contributors. The gtk bits are maintained the way we would like them to
> > but... I'm not sure that applies to the rest of the codebase.
>
> I think WebKit is better, but I am no expert.
>
> I have seen extensive technical discussions on public mailing lists.
> I have gotten good and detailed responses on the public bug tracker.
> I've also benefitted from information posted on bug reports reported
> by other people.
> And the GTK guys have done a great job at catering to our immediate needs.
>
> There are other factors too. Chromium bundles a load of libraries,
> rather than using systemwide ones, which is not really the model that
> we expect on the open source desktop. I think this is the main reason
> why it is not in Fedora (Fedora has a guideline against that, and
> packaging Chromium is no easy task as a result). WebKit is much better
> there, and in being in general a good "open source desktop friendly"
> solution.


Cool. You certainly have more experience with the WebKit then me :)

I think that's something we should keep in consideration.
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