[Sugar-devel] WebKit2 Browse - Download and Test

[Tony Anderson]

It may be expedient to test with Browse-157.2 which does not use webkit2 
for now. It is doubly hard to debug one change by using another
software component under test.

Tony

On 04/27/2016 01:27 PM, Utkarsh Tiwari wrote:
> Hi,
>      I pulled the 'webkit2' branch from the browse-repo and after
> running the activity I am getting the errors ( can't load a page in
> browse) as shown in the attachment below.
>
> Thanks,
> Utkarsh Tiwari
>
> On 4/19/16, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
>> Debian bug #802380 has a link that reproduces a "WebKit has crashed"
>> dialog on Browse-158, for which I've attached a screenshot.
>>
>> http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/18/us-new-york-flightcenter-idUSKCN0SC14B20151018
>>
>> This was with 2.12.0, and it is probably a WebKit problem rather than
>> a Browse problem, but it does expose some Browse problems in handling
>> a WebKit crash ...
>>
>> - the cursor keeps spinning,
>>
>> - the home button doesn't work any more,
>>
>> - the stop loading button doesn't work either,
>>
>> - no evidence of the crash in the Browse logs.
>>
>> The activity stop button worked fine.
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 08:34:44PM +1000, sam at sam.today wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm happy to release an unstable version of the WebKit2 browse.  Most
>>> things
>>> have been ported and many bugs fixed from the original port.  Please help
>>> by
>>> testing this!
>>>
>>> Special thanks to Gonzalo Odiard for his huge contribution to the port.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sam
>>>
>>> =====
>>> Installing
>>> =====
>>>
>>> Note, this requires **WebKitGtk+ 2.11.3** or newer.  Practically, this
>>> means
>>> use Fedora 24+.
>>>
>>> You can install the activity from the git repository branch "webkit2":
>>> [1]
>>> https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/tree/webkit2
>>>
>>> You can use the XO bundle if you prefer:
>>> [2]https://people.sugarlabs.org/sam/
>>> Browse-158.xo
>>> (sha256sum
>>> 2cd0f96501eea9a5905d0f3bdc1fde88c85069e62d5eb7706f14f85a41b182b2)
>>>
>>> Then open Sugar and run the Browse activity.  Please verify that it has
>>> successfully installed version 158.
>>>
>>> Please report bugs somewhere.  You can email me <sam at sam.today>, reply to
>>> this
>>> thread, or open them somewhere on bugs.sugarlabs.org.
>>>
>>> ==================
>>> What is good about WebKit2?
>>> ==================
>>>
>>> * Read the WebKit Security Advisories and feel happy that you are using
>>> WebKit2
>>> [1]
>>>      - Read "On WebKit Security Updates" and feel sad again (unless you
>>> run
>>> Fedora) [2]
>>> * WebGL Support (Hype!)
>>> * New javascript engine "FTL" (Faster Than Light) powered by the very new
>>> B3
>>> backend.  You can run Sugarizer even faster inside of Sugar!!
>>> * Web Process Separation keeps you safer from evil internet people.
>>>   Eventually, the web process will even be sandboxed from your system
>>> * Pinch-to-zoom support - real time text rendering while zooming (watch
>>> the
>>> lag!!)
>>> * GeoLocation support - web sites can request geo location permission
>>> * Notification support - web sites can request permission to send you
>>> notification
>>>
>>> =================
>>> Summary of Browse changes
>>> =================
>>>
>>> * Improve the autocomplete list (thanks to Utkarsh Tiwari)
>>> * PDF Tab Edge case fixes (thanks to James Cameron)
>>> *
>>> * New history format.  This is due to a change in WebKit2 api.
>>>    - You can open files made with old versions of browse.  However, it will
>>> only
>>> load the current tab page, not the full back/forward history list.
>>> * Print to PDF support removed.  This is due to a change in WebKit2 api.
>>> * Button to activate the Web inspector.
>>> * The long-press for palette code got even more dodgy.  It now fakes a
>>> right
>>> click - this is the only way to work with the webkit2 api changes.
>>>
>>> [1]  [3]http://webkitgtk.org/security.html
>>> [2]  [4]https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/
>>> on-webkit-security-updates/
>>>
>>> References:
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/tree/webkit2
>>> [2] https://people.sugarlabs.org/sam/Browse-158.xo
>>> [3] http://webkitgtk.org/security.html
>>> [4]
>>> https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-security-updates/
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>>
>> --
>> James Cameron
>> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>>
>>
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