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

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Tue May 21 15:15:11 EDT 2013


On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
> Question for the sugar-web-activities framework developers:
>
> * With the actual implementation, do we _really_ need webkit2?
>
> You can say, why? We already decided that!
>
> I know, but thinking in the following months:
>
> * 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.

webkit2 is included in F18 and is in OLPC builds. Has anyone checked
if it is good enough to run the latest webapp stuff? There may be no
need to go back to webkit1 if you want to continue on this path.

Daniel


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