Re: [Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

2010-04-29 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 22:10, 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

Re: [Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

2010-04-27 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Bobby Powers bobbypow...@gmail.com wrote: I wrote surf a while ago, and it was quite an easy port.  In fact, the demo browser for pywebkitgtk was (at least at one point) based on browse.  I did most of the work in a day and a half, but ran into problems with

Re: [Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

2010-04-27 Thread Lucian Branescu
I plan to use current hulahop/pywebkitgtk to start out since there's less to figure out. Since it's an abstraction layer, the backends can be switched later. I need a lot of feedback on what the abstraction layer itself needs to do. Afaik, only Browse and Read use browser engines so far. And then

Re: [Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

2010-04-27 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 17:38 -0700, Bobby Powers wrote: I wrote surf a while ago, and it was quite an easy port. In fact, the demo browser for pywebkitgtk was (at least at one point) based on browse. I did most of the work in a day and a half, but ran into problems with both webkit's

Re: [Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

2010-04-27 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:56 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote: There are also gir bindings for webkit (in webkit's trunk), so it might be worth investigating their completeness, especially since pywebkitgtk seems to be unmaintained, as Sayamindu pointed out. I believe we use the

Re: [Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

2010-04-26 Thread Lucian Branescu
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

Re: [Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

2010-04-26 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
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

Re: [Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

2010-04-26 Thread Lucian Branescu
This is part of why I think having an abstraction layer is more important than having a complete pywebkitgtk browser activity. It 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,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

2010-04-26 Thread Lucian Branescu
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,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

2010-04-26 Thread Lucian Branescu
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,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

2010-04-26 Thread Bobby Powers
I wrote surf a while ago, and it was quite an easy port. In fact, the demo browser for pywebkitgtk was (at least at one point) based on browse. I did most of the work in a day and a half, but ran into problems with both webkit's packaging and the feature-completeness of pywebkitgtk (the ability

Re: [Sugar-devel] Did someone say Webkit?

2010-04-26 Thread Bernie Innocenti
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 23:29 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: 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. Now it makes sense. As long