[Sugar-devel] About web activities, webkit2 and backward compatibility

[Gonzalo Odiard]

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 21 May 2013 20:31, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>> Question for the sugar-web-activities framework developers:
>>
>> * With the actual implementation, do we _really_ need webkit2?
>>
>
> Probably not. It should be easy to give it a try, the API didn't change
> that much.
>
>
>> * If we continue going with webkit2, the only way to develop web
>> activities, will be sugar-build. No real users can use that activities in a
>> xo with sugar for at least 6 months more.
>>
>
> You will also need to figure out how to provide the equivalent of the
> shell apisocket inside the activity. Same interface and partially different
> implementation might work.
>
>

Good point.


> I repeat, I know this was decided, but I think these are good enough
>> arguments.
>>
>
> Personally I'm going to focus on building something that it's even worth
> considering to backport. We are pretty far from that goal yet. I don't see
> anything wrong with someone writing a backward compatible activity which
> can run the sugar-html-* stuff though. I think we also said that when we
> made the decision.
>

Great.

Gonzalo
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