Hi Brian, Please see my comments below:
On 01/07/09 10:43, Brian Cameron wrote: > > At the ARC meeting today, a few questions were raised. I'm hoping the > project team can provide some clarity on these points: > > 1) How is WebKit presented to the user? Is it a standalone program that > users can run, or is it only embedded in various GNOME programs that > use it's embedded browsing capabilities, or both? For example, I > believe it is going to be used by the GNOME help browser, yelp, for > navigating help documentation. Could the project team explain in > more detail what uses WebKit and how it presents itself to the end > user? WebKit is a web browser engine, which serves as the dependent library for GNOME applications. It's only embedded in GNOME applications for navigating help documentation. There isn't a standalone program shipped with WebKit. The GNOME applications shipped in Solaris which will depend on WebKit includes the following: yelp, devhelp, Evolution, Pidgin. All of them are irrelevant to HTTPS and are the GUI applications that users can access to. > 2) Exactly how does WebKit fail when a user tries to access a HTTPS > website. Since it is not built with HTTPS support, ARC wants to > make sure that it doesn't in any way mislead the user. A user > should not be misled into thinking it is working when it is not. > > In other words, it should be clear to the end user that when they try > to visit a HTTPS website with WebKit that it doesn't work. It should > also be usable, so it shouldn't just crash or similar. Does it pop > up a dialog informing the user about the issue? I tried to build epiphany (a browser GUI application which we don't ship) with WebKit. When accessing HTTPS website, epiphany will try to load the page. But only blank page will be displayed in the browser window and no error dialog shows up. Users can open new tab to access other normal website at the same time. > Or is this a non-issue since it is only being provided for the > purposes of programs like yelp which use its embedded browsing > features? I think it's a non-issue for Solaris as all the applications only use the embedded browsing features. Regards, -Alfred > > Thanks, > > Brian
