Re: Webkit2 porting

2014-10-14 Thread Marcos Chavarría Teijeiro
Hi! I'm working on porting Yelp to WK2 as part of an Igalia internship [1] and in addition I'm creating a some kind of tutorial/cookbook to help people to port WK1 app to WK2. You cand find the tutorial (it's a work in progress) here [2]. I hope it can help... Please, feel free to comment, criti

Re: Webkit2 porting

2014-10-14 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Marcos Chavarría Teijeiro wrote: > Hi! > > I'm working on porting Yelp to WK2 as part of an Igalia internship [1] > and in addition I'm creating a some kind of tutorial/cookbook to help > people to port WK1 app to WK2. > > You cand find the tutorial (it's a work in

Re: Webkit2 porting

2014-10-14 Thread Jim Nelson
Just to jump in, the situation we're facing with Geary is that Geary works fairly intimately with the WebKit DOM. For example, we programmatically inject HTML elements while building the page and even in response to user events after the page has been rendered. In WebKit 1 this was no problem as

Re: Webkit2 porting

2014-10-14 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Jim Nelson wrote: > It would be great if the DOM was available via WebKitGTK and the local > library did the IPC for us, but I've been told that that's not going > to happen. The DOM is a huge API and I can't blame them for that. I > do wish the separate process

Re: Webkit2 porting

2014-10-14 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 14:44 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Jim Nelson wrote: > > > It would be great if the DOM was available via WebKitGTK and the local > > library did the IPC for us, but I've been told that that's not going > > to happen. The DOM is a huge AP

Re: Webkit2 porting

2014-10-14 Thread Robert Schroll
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Michael Catanzaro wrote: Anyway, Robert and I spent yesterday morning learning how to get a very simple example of UI process <-> web extension IPC working via D-Bus. (Well, mostly working: Robert discovered today that our example D-Bus signal is broken) Th

Re: Webkit2 porting

2014-10-14 Thread Milan Crha
On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 21:17 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote: > For apps that are displaying web pages (everything not geary?) > with no such compatibility concerns, porting should be relatively > easy. Hi, just for your information, Evolution is on the same boat as geary, all the previews