Aside from any other issues, my recollection was that there had not been any work to formally specify NaCl or Pepper, has that changed?
I'm also concerned as this adds a significant maintenance burden to the project for no obvious benefit. --Oliver On Jun 30, 2013, at 11:41 PM, halton huo <halton....@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear WebKit developers and users, > > I’m pleased to announce the initial contribution of Pepper[1] and NaCl[2] > support for WebKit2. The home page is located at > https://github.com/nacl-webkit/native_client/wiki. > The initial code include supporting of: > * Partial pepper api supporting includes: 2d, scripting, url_loader, file > chooser, audio, mouse and keyboard events, websockets. > * Basic NaCl support with post message api (HelloWorld from nacl_sdk) > > There are some sceenshots on > https://github.com/nacl-webkit/native_client/wiki/Screenshots > > Q&A > ======= > Q: Why this project? > A: We enjoy working with the WebKit projects. We also enjoy technologies like > NaCl, and wanted to lower the barrier to letting people integrate NaCl into > their WebKit2 based projects. We prototyped this work and now want to make it > available for others to use if they want. > > Q: Can I modify and re-use the project? > A: Yes. The code is inherited from the Chromium, WebKit2 and native_client > projects. As such, this project follows the same licenses. > > Q: Why not upstream? > A: There are two main reasons. First, the current code is only a prototype to > support NaCl in the Linux EFL port of WebKit2. There still remains work to be > done before the patches would be appropriate to try and take upstream. > Second, the WebKit community has stated in the past that they did not want > NaCl upstream. > > Q: How to contribute? > A: Fork the repo on github and submit the pull request, committers will > review the patches. For the time being, the initial contributors are > committers, we're welcome to anyone who can show his ability to be as > committer. Follow the https://github.com/nacl-webkit/native_client/wiki/Code > to get code and build. > > Q: Any next plan? > A: We don't have any formal plans for the project moving forward; it is being > developed as a part-time effort by a few engineers. As such, there is no > guarantee for future work. Again, anyone is welcome to contribute! Or fork > the project and run with it. > > [1] http://code.google.com/p/ppapi/ > [2] http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
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