Thanks for working on the browser issue and hope more people get involved so that the XO-1 can get the recent software update - all except XO-1 currrently because of the browser issue.
I notice when I point the current browser to www.youtube.com I get kickout and it will return me back to start menu. Cheers and look forward to more development. >-----Original Message----- >From: Gonzalo Odiard [mailto:godi...@sugarlabs.org] >Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 10:47 PM >To: 'Sugar-dev Devel', 'iaep' >Subject: Re: [IAEP] Browse version using Webkit2 > >Testing old version of Browse in community version images, I can't >reproduce bug #12866 >If we could solve the connectivity / collaboration issues... > >Gonzalo > >On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:34 AM, Gonzalo Odiard <godi...@sugarlabs.org> >wrote: > >> I was trying to find a solution for the problem of Browse in XO-1. >> After try use a old version of Browse, based in gecko, >> and recompile the dependencies without success, I started to work in the >> port of Browse from WebKit to WebKit2. >> >> That will not work in Fedora 18 (because Webkit2 crash in F18), >> but could solve the problem in the new community >> images based in Fedora 20. >> >> I have a basic version working, still with a lot of errors, but is >> possible navigate, >> download and see pdf files and multimedia files. >> A testing version (not for distribution) is here [1] >> >> TESTING: >> I can't connect to internet with my XO-1 with the community edition image, >> if anybody can, please test this version and verify if this bug [2] is >> still present >> and if the activity crashes. >> Report any error you find. >> Known issues: >> * History is not restored. >> * Ugly error messages >> >> DEVELOPMENT: >> The porting is done in the branch webkit2 [3] >> Master will only receive critical fixes. When the port is ready, will be >> merged in master. >> Code pending to port is identified by a a comment "# TODO PORT" >> I found some blockers I couldn't solve yet: >> * The objects where the information about the history is stored >> have read only properties (title and url), I can recreate the history >> with the data stored in the journal metadata. >> * Need a mechanism to configure where download files, right now >> is done in the Downloads directory and later copied to the journal. >> * The error callback function in browser.py receive a int instead of >> a GError. Looks as a introspection error. >> * Don't know how store the coockies needed by the xs server with the new >> API. >> >> >> [1] http://dev.laptop.org/~gonzalo/activities/Browse-158.xo >> [2] https://dev.laptop.org/ticket/12866 >> [3] https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/commits/webkit2 >> [4] >> http://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/stable/WebKitBackForwardListItem.html >> -- >> Gonzalo Odiard >> >> SugarLabs - Software for children learning >> > > > >-- >Gonzalo Odiard > >SugarLabs - Software for children learning > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep