This is part of why I think having an abstraction layer is more important than having a complete pywebkitgtk browser activity.
I would be even cooler if Read could also use this abstraction layer for epub. On 26 April 2010 21:10, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayami...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Lucian Branescu > <lucian.brane...@gmail.com> wrote: >> There already is a mostly complete pywebkitgtk activity, Surf. >> >> There has been a lot of debate on whether webkit is better than gecko >> for our purposes. I also plan to only support what is reasonably easy >> to support and let the abstraction layer be leaky. >> >> This way, the new Browse can much more easily be ported to another web >> engine if needed. In fact, as the abstraction layer grows more >> complete, Browse can be 'ported' to the rest of the abstraction layer >> (as opposed to AbstractBrowser+hulahop events which would be the first >> step). >> > > Something which concerns me is the relative lack of maintainer > activity for pywebkitgtk. For example, > http://code.google.com/p/pywebkitgtk/issues/detail?id=44 lists an > issue which was reported in December last year, and there has been no > feedback on it (there is a proposed patch as well). The fix for the > issue would help address a few crashers in Read in F-12 and above. > Of course, as we move to gobject-introspection and friends, this > should become less of a concern. > Thanks, > Sayamindu > > > > >> On 26 April 2010 03:20, Bernie Innocenti <ber...@codewiz.org> wrote: >>> On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 18:07 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: >>>> My GSoC project involves building an abstraction layer above >>>> pywebkitgtk/hulahop (wiki/AbstractBrowser). >>>> >>>> While the project itself isn't related, this abstraction layer and one >>>> of it's lower layers (i.e. pywebkitgtk) would become a dependency of >>>> the sugar toolkit. >>> >>> Very interesting. Would your work make it possible to switch the Browse >>> activity from XPCOM to Webkit? >>> >>> If there were no loss of features, would it be easier for you to switch >>> the Browse activty from hulahop to pywebkitgtk without developing an >>> abstraction framework for both? >>> >>> -- >>> // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ >>> \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ >>> >>> >> > > > > -- > Sayamindu Dasgupta > [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings] > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel