I am marking this case as closed approved since it times out today.
I believe that all issues raised have been addressed. The two
issues raised included:
- Issues regarding how WebKit supports SSL certificates. Alfred Peng
worked with Darren Moffat to address this issue, and the case
materials were updated to reflect this.
- Concern about a11y support. It was agreed that this case only
integrates WebKit, and does not approve it to be embedded into
other programs. Any module which embeds WebKit will need
to be ARC'ed separately and provide details on any a11y impact.
Thanks,
Brian
On 07/23/09 08:42, Brian Cameron wrote:
>
> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09 SMI
> This information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems
> 1. Introduction
> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
> WebKit 1.1.x
> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
> Author: Alfred Peng
> 1.3 Date of This Document:
> 23 July, 2009
> 4. Technical Description
> Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems
>
> 1. Introduction
> 1.1. Project/Component Working Name:
>
> WebKit 1.1.x
>
> 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier:
>
> Alfred Peng
>
> 1.3. Date of This Document:
>
> 07/21/2009
>
> 1.3.1. Date this project was conceived:
>
> 10/01/2006
>
> 1.4. Name of Major Document Customer(s)/Consumer(s):
>
> 1.4.1. The PAC or CPT you expect to review your project:
>
> Solaris PAC
>
> 1.4.2. The ARC(s) you expect to review your project:
>
> LSARC
>
> 1.4.3. The Director/VP who is "Sponsoring" this project:
>
> robert.odea at sun.com
>
> 1.4.4. The name of your business unit:
>
> Software - OPG
>
> 1.5. Email Aliases:
>
> 1.5.1. Responsible Manager:
>
> leo.binchy at sun.com
>
> 1.5.2. Responsible Engineer:
>
> alfred.peng at sun.com
>
> 1.5.3. Marketing Manager:
>
> glynn.foster at sun.com
>
> 1.5.4. Interest List:
>
> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
>
> 2. Project Summary
> 2.1. Project Description:
>
> WebKit is an open source web browser engine. It's also the name of
> the
> Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by
> Safari,
> Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and
> JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from
> KDE.
>
> WebKit can be built on top of different widget backends, which
> includes
> GTK, Qt, wxWidgets and some others as well. For this case, WebKit
> will
> be built with GTK+ on Solaris. It's the engine that will be used for
> embedding a browser in various GNOME applications, devhelp/yelp for
> example.
>
> WebKitGTK+ is a community sub-project maintained mostly by GNOME and
> GTK+ developers. It's implemented directly on top of GTK+, GLib and
> GNOME libraries and provides lightweight web viewing and editing
> features as well as being the basis for complete web browser
> applications. It supports the latest web standards and offers good
> performance and memory usage characteristics on the desktop.
>
> The release schedule for WebKitGTK+ will be matched with GNOME's
> 6-month release cycle. Currently, GNOME applications including
> devhelp/epiphany have switched to link against WebKit.
>
> 4. Technical Description:
> 4.1. Details:
>
> WebKit has the following features:
> - CSS 2.1, CSS3 support.
> - DOM (Document Object Model)
> - Styleable form controls with CSS.
> - Drosera (A JavaScript debugger for WebKit that can be used
> with any application that uses WebKit)
> - Enhanced Rich Text Editing.
> - XML techologies support, including XPath, SVG and XSLTProcessor
> (JavaScript API for XSLT).
> - Netscape-style (NPAPI) plugins support.
> - WebKit embedding API (provides clients with a public API for
> loading, displaying and manipulating Web content.)
>
> New in 1.1.x:
> - HTTP auth with optional GNOME keyring storage.
> - HTML5 media element support.
> - Spell check support.
>
> WebKit supports the AT-SPI accessibility layer since version 1.0.x.
> The GNOME accessibility team are working hard with WebKit team to
> ensure
> WebKit is accessible when GNOME 2.28 is released.
>
> The libcURL HTTP backend support has been removed from WebKit 1.1.x.
> The
> default HTTP backend is now libsoup. WebKit uses libsoup to verify
> the
> peer's certificates for HTTPS connections. Currently, WebKit accepts
> all
> SSL certificates automatically by default as libsoup doesn't support
> client SSL certificate. Meanwhile, libsoup is also used for HTTP auth
> handling with optional GNOME Keyring support.
>
> WebKit 1.1.x enables HTML5 Video support by using GStreamer framework
> as the media backend. This makes it possible for the video content to
> be embedded in SVG and manipulated with CSS and JavaScript.
>
> 4.2. Bug/RFE Number(s):
>
> None.
>
> 4.3. In Scope:
>
> See above.
>
> 4.4. Out of Scope:
>
> See above.
>
> 4.5. Interfaces:
>
> This section only hightlights the changes since LSARC/2008/782.
>
> Exported Interface:
>
> Interface Stability Comment
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.1 Obsolete Volatile Symbolic link
> /usr/lib/${MACH64}/libwebkit-1.0.so.1 Obsolete Volatile Symbolic link
> /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so Volatile Symbolic link
> /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2 Volatile Symbolic link
> /usr/lib/libwebkit-1.0.so.2.7.0 Volatile webkit lib
> /usr/lib/${MACH64}/libwebkit-1.0.so Volatile Symbolic link
> /usr/lib/${MACH64}/libwebkit-1.0.so.2 Volatile Symbolic link
> /usr/lib/${MACH64}/libwebkit-1.0.so.2.7.0
> Volatile 64bit webkit lib
>
> Imported Interfaces:
>
> Interface Stability Comments
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> cURL Obsolete Uncommitted PSARC/2007/165
> libsoup, GStreamer Committed LSARC/2007/520
>
> 4.6. Doc Impact:
>
> None.
>
> 4.7. I18N/L10N Impact:
>
> The JDS team and the G11N team are working together to evaluate and
> provide I18N/L10N support.
>
> 4.8. Packaging& Delivery:
>
> The project will be delivering the following packages:
> SUNWwebkit
> SUNWwebkit-devel
>
> 4.9. Security Impact:
>
> WebKit uses libsoup to verify the peer's certificates for HTTPS
> connections, instead of libcurl. Currently, WebKit accepts all
> SSL certificates automatically by default as libsoup doesn't support
> client SSL certificate. Meanwhile, libsoup is also used for HTTP auth
> handling with optional GNOME Keyring support.
>
> 4.10. Dependencies:
>
> None.
>
> 5. Reference Documents:
>
> 1. SUNWwebkit,SUNWwebkit-devel
> pkgmap
> pkginfo
> depend
>
> 2. XDG Base Directory Specification
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/ar01s03.html
>
> 3. WebKit community
> http://webkit.org/
> http://webkitgtk.org/
>
> 4. WebKit wiki page
> http://trac.webkit.org/wiki
>
> 5. References for web standards:
> CSS 2.1: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/
> CSS 3: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work#CSS3
> DOM: http://www.w3.org/DOM/
> XPath: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath
> SVG: http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/
> XSLT: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
> HTML5: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
>
> 6. Resources and Schedule
> 6.4. Steering Committee requested information
> 6.4.1. Consolidation C-team Name:
> Desktop
> 6.5. ARC review type: FastTrack
> 6.6. ARC Exposure: open
>
