Re: [OE-core] RFC: Web browsing and HTML in OE-Core

2013-08-23 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 16:24 +0200, Samuel Stirtzel wrote: 2013/8/22 Richard Purdie richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org: We've slowly been shaking out the definition of OE-Core and as part of that we removed web and web-gtk which were the only browsers in there and were admittedly a bit

Re: [OE-core] RFC: Web browsing and HTML in OE-Core

2013-08-23 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 15:18 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 15:04 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: With that in mind, I think some kind of HTML support in OE-Core is important going forward. Equally, I dislike having things there which we cannot test. I know some people have

Re: [OE-core] RFC: Web browsing and HTML in OE-Core

2013-08-23 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 12:17 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: I think ultimately we need both, a real world user of webkit and also a webkit-ptest type package too. They both let us test different things, one probably more quickly than the other, with the other being more complete. Well, logically

Re: [OE-core] RFC: Web browsing and HTML in OE-Core

2013-08-23 Thread Richard Purdie
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 16:56 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote: On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 12:17 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: I think ultimately we need both, a real world user of webkit and also a webkit-ptest type package too. They both let us test different things, one probably more quickly than the

Re: [OE-core] RFC: Web browsing and HTML in OE-Core

2013-08-23 Thread Phil Blundell
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 17:14 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: What does the standalone launcher give you? Basically a very simple browser-type application that you can launch with a URL from the command line and see the resulting page in a window. Generally you also get some rudimentary UI controls,

[OE-core] RFC: Web browsing and HTML in OE-Core

2013-08-22 Thread Richard Purdie
We've slowly been shaking out the definition of OE-Core and as part of that we removed web and web-gtk which were the only browsers in there and were admittedly a bit limited/broken. There is no doubt that web technology has an increasingly important role in the future and in embedded devices

Re: [OE-core] RFC: Web browsing and HTML in OE-Core

2013-08-22 Thread Phil Blundell
On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 15:04 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: With that in mind, I think some kind of HTML support in OE-Core is important going forward. Equally, I dislike having things there which we cannot test. I know some people have looked into this and it appears midori is the best option

Re: [OE-core] RFC: Web browsing and HTML in OE-Core

2013-08-22 Thread Samuel Stirtzel
2013/8/22 Richard Purdie richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org: We've slowly been shaking out the definition of OE-Core and as part of that we removed web and web-gtk which were the only browsers in there and were admittedly a bit limited/broken. There is no doubt that web technology has an

Re: [OE-core] RFC: Web browsing and HTML in OE-Core

2013-08-22 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Richard Purdie richard.pur...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: We've slowly been shaking out the definition of OE-Core and as part of that we removed web and web-gtk which were the only browsers in there and were admittedly a bit limited/broken. There is no doubt