[Sugar-devel] Browser port to Webkit2

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 4 May 2013 23:39, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I did a quick Browse port to WebKit2 to see how hard it willl be. I got it
> to sort of work, it loads pages... There are lots of small API changes that
> will need to be checked carefully.
>
> There are two regressions that doesn't seem fixable with the current API
>
> * We can't get as much information as before for contextual palettes.
>

There doesn't seem to be C API for this in WebKit2, so it's unlikely it
will be added to gtk. We could do it with an extension, but I'm not sure we
care enough.


> * I don't think there is a way to restore history (confirmed by epiphany
> code).
>

There is C API to restore session data, which would be much better than
what we have. I opened a bug about binding it in gtk.

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115600
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