[dev] [surf] Switching to webkit2 as default

2016-02-04 Thread Nick
Greetings fellow travellers. I try not to keep too abreast of things like GTK and WebKit, for the sake of my sanity, but I read this[0] today which was a pretty scary read, really. One thing that is particularly important is that webkitgtk2 is receiving security updates, whereas webkitgtk1 is

Re: [dev] [surf] Switching to webkit2 as default

2016-02-04 Thread FRIGN
On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 17:50:05 + Nick wrote: Hey Nick, > I try not to keep too abreast of things like GTK and WebKit, for the > sake of my sanity, but I read this[0] today which was a pretty scary > read, really. I also read this article a while ago. > One thing that is particularly importa

Re: [dev] [surf] Switching to webkit2 as default

2016-02-04 Thread Pickfire
Well, I think webkit2 can be the default branch, but I will still use webkit1 because there is some problem with the webkit2 here. -- _ < Do what you like, like what you do. > - \ ^__^ \ (oo)\___

Re: [dev] [surf] Switching to webkit2 as default

2016-02-04 Thread Louis Santillan
On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:16 AM, FRIGN wrote: > On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 17:50:05 + > Nick wrote: > > Hey Nick, > >> I try not to keep too abreast of things like GTK and WebKit, for the >> sake of my sanity, but I read this[0] today which was a pretty scary >> read, really. > > I also read this art

Re: [dev] [surf] Switching to webkit2 as default

2016-02-04 Thread Pickfire
On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 05:10:08PM -0800, Louis Santillan wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:16 AM, FRIGN wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 17:50:05 + Nick wrote: Hey Nick, I try not to keep too abreast of things like GTK and WebKit, for the sake of my sanity, but I read this[0] today which was a

Re: [dev] [surf] Switching to webkit2 as default

2016-02-05 Thread Markus Teich
Louis Santillan wrote: > One of the things I don't like about the Chrome (and specifically v8) > codebase is how google-centric the build process is. By that I mean the > build basically assumes you're a googler with dozens of cores and TBs of > RAM and infrastructure to throw at the build pro

Re: [dev] [surf] Switching to webkit2 as default

2016-02-05 Thread FRIGN
On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 11:52:54 +0100 Markus Teich wrote: Hey Markus, > yeah the web sucks and to conform to all those (non-)standards browser engines > are growing bigger and bigger. Webkit also takes quite a while to build on > laptops. The suckless browsers goal is to provide a suckless interface

Re: [dev] [surf] Switching to webkit2 as default

2016-02-05 Thread Nick
Quoth FRIGN: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2016 11:52:54 +0100 > Markus Teich wrote: > > You don't have to build CEF yourself, you can just use the > > binaries provided by google if you trust them. That's good to know, thanks, I may play with it. It is important to me that I can rebuild everything on my syst