[Sugar-devel] Adding compatibility in webactivity to webkit1

[Daniel Narvaez]

What do you mean with "emergence of sugar-toolkit-gtk3"?

On Tuesday, 3 December 2013, Rogelio Mita wrote:

> I need more context about emergence of sugar-toolkit-gtk3 but...
>
> I am agree with that points:
> Gonzalo says:
>
>> Another alternative is find what is crashing in webkit2 and solve it, but
>> is out of my knowledge.
>
> Always is an alternative write code for cover backward compatibility if
> there are all pertinent tests to cover this features with all the effort
> that this entails, so we need to think very carefull on that choice like
> Daniel said:
>
>> I'm not completely convinced we should support webkit1 yet. I'm worried
>> it will be pretty painful to maintain.
>
>
> Maybe we can ask us: *To whom these problems affect?*.
> If is possible answer this questions, this can help us to take a choise.
>
> Anyway, seems risky write two different backends for a short terms usage.
> Is it possible?
> - sure, but seems a lot of work, I think that is unneccessary for a short
> term, IMHO.
>
> Other risk is expand a module that is recently born such as sugar-web that
> I think the goal is no clear in the horizont yet, I think that keep it
> small this is a good desition right now until that the usage be more clear,
> I mean, android, simple browser and XO is an wide spectrum to cover, if we
> not have clarity that this serves for its purpose, add backward support
> right now, is overhead in my oppinion.
>
>
> 2013/12/2 Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'dwnarvaez at gmail.com');>>
>
>> I'd really like to get feedback from more people about this!
>>
>> Ccing sugar-web contributors.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, 27 November 2013, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:
>>
>>> When we started the work in web activities, we decided work with webkit2,
>>> because is possible solve a few problems in the client side,
>>> without need a local webserver.
>>>
>>> But right now, in the XOs, we have F18 working, and Webkit2 crashes,
>>> then I didn't find other solution than modify webactivity to work with
>>> webkit1.
>>> That code was included in the rpms I prepared and the testing images.
>>>
>>> I would like propose include this change in master,
>>> used only when a environment variable is set, to make easier the testing,
>>> and be sure the changes we do works in both webkit1 and webkit2.
>>>
>>> A first proposal is available here
>>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3/pull/54
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Gonzalo
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Daniel Narvaez
>>
>> --
>> Roger
>>
>> Activity Central <http://activitycentral.com/>
>>
>

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Daniel Narvaez
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