Bobby Powers wrote: > I am happy to annouce the release of Surf version 106. Surf is > basically Browse with the Mozilla/XULRunner guts ripped out, and > replaced with the WebKit renderer. > > Obligitory screenshot: > http://dev.laptop.org/~bobbyp/surf/surf_1.png > > Feeling adventurous? well you can test it out yourself on a Sugar > desktop near you. > First you need WebKit-gtk, pywebkitgtk and gnome-python-gconf: > sudo yum install WebKit-gtk pywebkitgtk gnome-python-gconf (not sure > what the packages are called on Debian) > or, alternatively, you can get and build webkit and its python > bindings from scratch. There are instructions elsewhere on the net > for this. > > Second, download surf: > http://dev.laptop.org/~bobbyp/surf/Surf-106.xo > > what works: > - browsing (gmail crashes the browser with the WebKit-gtk packages in > rawhide and F9, but it works fine from webkit trunk) > - bookmarks (although their label seems to be blank) > - full page zoom > - full screen mode > - page-loading progress bar > > what doesn't: > - persistant history - not saved across sessions (or journal entries) > - clipboard/undo/redo - should be simple > - back and forward buttons - you can go back and forward through your > history, but autocomplete and skipping back or forward in the history > is not implemented. shouldn't be too hard to complete/ > - file downloading - just landed yesterday in webkit's gtk bindings. > might need to extend the python wrapper, but the hard work is done. > - im sure there are other things I forgot > > I'm typing this in Surf - the most annoying 'feature' so far is that > my arrow keys wont navigate around the textbox. > > An informal test showed that Browse in sugar-emulator used 100MB in > opening and navigating to gmail, while surf used 85MB. That still > seems like a lot, but its a 15% savings right off the bat. > > > yours, > Bobby
First: Bobby thanks for your efforts. As a reference: here is an interesting comparison between WebKit and Xulrunner/Firefox. http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2009/03/03/browsing-in-gnome/ Regards, Simon _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel