Sorry for starting a new thread, but I missed the original announcement It is difficult to guess if it is real or not, but there are high probabilities that it is.
After I read the news that Epiphany is now able to run using the WebKit engine, I liked that, but I only do not wanted it to be a compile time option, I hoped for it to be a runtime option (not necessarily with an UI to choose the backend, so It can remain an advanced option). I have been reading gtkhtml, WebKit and Gecko APIs in order to see if i get the idea of how to write a modern embeddable HTML control/gtkwidget. using my little experience with Epiphany coding, see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119090 (that still is not a default Epiphany feature by the way, a Certificate Manager is a must in modern Web, in special on the enterprise sector) What has showed this increase in WebKit interest is that we need a way to abstract all GNOME applications from that backend, who knows when will another engine dethrone WebKit and Gecko in opensource developers minds? We will need to rebuild all applications when XYZ engine is the new kid in the block? We need an abstraction layer. Why I think Gecko is still important on Epiphany, because the enterprise sector. Currently I am working in a project related to a massive migration to Linux on the desktop, and our current browser in testing is Epiphany, for two reasons: it is Gecko, required by many applications from third parties, those that only develop for a few browsers and do not support (officially) any standard compliant browser; and the GConf integration, moving to WebKit exclusively will destroy our preference on Epiphany and make us harder forcing us to use plain Firefox. Like in any opensource project, the maintainers are the guide the project, but I am worried that a decision like this (if it is real and not only a way to test the waters) was done without too much user involvement (correct me if I am mistaken, but I never heard of someone proposing this in the public) ________________________________________ Robert Marcano web: http://www.marcanoonline.com/ gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu/ --recv-key 72A0DCFD _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
