On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 March 2012 23:52, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> wrote: >> Browse is old and not useful for a lot of newer content. Our >> communities are creating content in HTML5, an effort that we want to >> encourage. >> >> However, Browse is based on the Gecko in engine in Firefox 3.6, which >> is far behind the times. I know that is is being ported to WebKit [1] >> as part of the GTK+3 transition. However, it'll be at least a year >> before we roll out a GTK+3 version of Sugar in our schools. What can >> we do in the interim? >> >> We can load a different Web browser, especially since now since saved >> files can be shared with the journal via the Documents/ directory [3]. >> The best I've found is an Opera wrapper from Flavio [2]. It scores >> much higher than Browse for HTML5 compliance [4], but nowhere near as >> much as Firefox 10 or Chromium 17. Also, Opera is proprietary >> software. >> >> Sridhar >> >> >> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/WebKit >> [2] http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4503 >> [3] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/0.94/Notes#Easier_file_exchange.. >> [4] http://html5test.com/ > > > Bernie raised an interesting idea. Would it be reasonable to backport > the WebKit Browse to the OLPC OS 11.3? We could statically link the > dependencies in the bundle.
Personally I think it's unlikely as the webkit Browse depends on newer versions of webkitgtk3/gtk3/glib2/gobject-introspection that just aren't in Fedora 14 and in a lot of cases conflict with the versions in Fedora 14. Browse depends on things that aren't even in Fedora 16 so it would likely be a lot of work to get it working, even as a static build. Peter _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
