[Sugar-devel] [sugarlabs/sugar-toolkit-gtk3] [DISCUSS] Add abstraction layer for WebKit1/2 apis (#329)

[Sam Parkinson]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Tony Anderson <tony_anderson at usa.net> 
wrote:
> Hi, Sam
> 
> WebKit1 on 0.106 does not support flex-box. When you discuss 
> 'reverting' but using WebKit2 api, it is not clear to me whether the 
> OLPC version of Sugar will support modern CSS3 features.

OLPC os will *not* support WebKit2 on the XOs.  Quozl has said this 
many times.

This patch was a hack - it let the python programmer pretend that 
WebKit1 was WebKit2.  It did not actually run WebKit2 on the XO.  It 
did not add flexbox support.

Just "reverting" this means the following:  upstream sugar will be 
coded against WebKit2 - which is great for SoaS or Ubuntu users.  When 
OLPC makes OLPC OS images, they will revert this commit and their 
version will use WebKit1.  This is a better choice from a software 
perspective, and it will *not* affect the UX.

> 
> 
> Tony
> 
> On 07/22/2016 12:21 AM, Sam wrote:
>> 
>> Ok, I have updated the sugar patch, and this one is no longer 
>> relevant.
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