Good to see, thanks. On Ubuntu, a build of WebKit2Gtk 2.12.0 is available in the unstable archive of Debian, as package libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 08:34:44PM +1000, sam@sam.today wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm happy to release an unstable version of the WebKit2 browse. Most things > have been ported and many bugs fixed from the original port. Please help by > testing this! > > Special thanks to Gonzalo Odiard for his huge contribution to the port. > > Thanks, > Sam > > ===== > Installing > ===== > > Note, this requires **WebKitGtk+ 2.11.3** or newer. Practically, this means > use Fedora 24+. > > You can install the activity from the git repository branch "webkit2": [1] > https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/tree/webkit2 > > You can use the XO bundle if you prefer: [2]https://people.sugarlabs.org/sam/ > Browse-158.xo > (sha256sum 2cd0f96501eea9a5905d0f3bdc1fde88c85069e62d5eb7706f14f85a41b182b2) > > Then open Sugar and run the Browse activity. Please verify that it has > successfully installed version 158. > > Please report bugs somewhere. You can email me <sam@sam.today>, reply to this > thread, or open them somewhere on bugs.sugarlabs.org. > > ================== > What is good about WebKit2? > ================== > > * Read the WebKit Security Advisories and feel happy that you are using > WebKit2 > [1] > - Read "On WebKit Security Updates" and feel sad again (unless you run > Fedora) [2] > * WebGL Support (Hype!) > * New javascript engine "FTL" (Faster Than Light) powered by the very new B3 > backend. You can run Sugarizer even faster inside of Sugar!! > * Web Process Separation keeps you safer from evil internet people. > Eventually, the web process will even be sandboxed from your system > * Pinch-to-zoom support - real time text rendering while zooming (watch the > lag!!) > * GeoLocation support - web sites can request geo location permission > * Notification support - web sites can request permission to send you > notification > > ================= > Summary of Browse changes > ================= > > * Improve the autocomplete list (thanks to Utkarsh Tiwari) > * PDF Tab Edge case fixes (thanks to James Cameron) > * > * New history format. This is due to a change in WebKit2 api. > - You can open files made with old versions of browse. However, it will > only > load the current tab page, not the full back/forward history list. > * Print to PDF support removed. This is due to a change in WebKit2 api. > * Button to activate the Web inspector. > * The long-press for palette code got even more dodgy. It now fakes a right > click - this is the only way to work with the webkit2 api changes. > > [1] [3]http://webkitgtk.org/security.html > [2] [4]https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/ > on-webkit-security-updates/ > > References: > > [1] https://github.com/sugarlabs/browse-activity/tree/webkit2 > [2] https://people.sugarlabs.org/sam/Browse-158.xo > [3] http://webkitgtk.org/security.html > [4] https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-security-updates/ > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel