[Sugar-devel] Read activity, EPUB and WebKit

[Walter Bender]

Ayush wants to work on this.

-walter

On Sun, Jul 2, 2017 at 6:47 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> Is anyone available to port Read to the Webkit2 4.0 API?
>
> Read uses WebKit 3.0 API for viewing EPUB files, with type
> application/epub+zip.
>
> WebKit 3.0 and WebKit2 4.0 are Python Gobject-Introspection APIs to
> the embeddable web browser WebKit.
>
> WebKit 3.0 API will no longer be maintained, and is going to be
> removed by Fedora 27 (November) and Debian Buster.
>
> An alternative is to remove the EPUB feature from Read, which is what
> I'll do by August if a port is not done.
>
> Please, no replies along the lines of "don't upgrade", "EPUB is
> great", and "we need this feature".  Waste of time.  Spend your time
> coding or finding a coder.
>
> Also needing porting are the Help and Words activities.
>
> References:
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/866649
> https://github.com/sugarlabs/read-activity/issues/17
>
> (WebKit is a trademark of Apple).
>
> --
> James Cameron
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