From: Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>,
"Andreas Müller" <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
Cc: Yocto Project <yocto@yoctoproject.org>,
"openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org"
<openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org>,
Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [OE-core] Webkit-gtk will be updated to latest upstream; midori browser to be replaced with Epiphany
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:44:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <557EE4C2.501@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LbRVqw3h_3igs59=DTnaz6nf4w=A5ZpXepmh6xiKtVdPA@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/15/2015 05:24 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> If you actually compare the build dependencies, you'll see that Midori
> and Epiphany are actually almost identical.
>
> We need to upgrade WebKit as the release we're shipping has known
> security flaws and is very old - and the community is rightly moaning
> about that. However Midori doesn't build with a recent WebKit... if you
> have an alternative solution then your thoughts are welcome.
Also, Webkit2 itself ships with a tiny browser wrapper called MiniBrowser:
http://blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/2011/11/04/webkit2-gtk-minibrowser-ported-to-gtk-api/
That may be enough for many people's needs, and they can simply not
include Epiphany into their images if it's too big and bloated or whatever.
Alex
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From: Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>,
"Andreas Müller" <schnitzeltony@googlemail.com>
Cc: Yocto Project <yocto@yoctoproject.org>,
"openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org"
<openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org>,
Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer
<openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: Webkit-gtk will be updated to latest upstream; midori browser to be replaced with Epiphany
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:44:18 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <557EE4C2.501@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LbRVqw3h_3igs59=DTnaz6nf4w=A5ZpXepmh6xiKtVdPA@mail.gmail.com>
On 06/15/2015 05:24 PM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> If you actually compare the build dependencies, you'll see that Midori
> and Epiphany are actually almost identical.
>
> We need to upgrade WebKit as the release we're shipping has known
> security flaws and is very old - and the community is rightly moaning
> about that. However Midori doesn't build with a recent WebKit... if you
> have an alternative solution then your thoughts are welcome.
Also, Webkit2 itself ships with a tiny browser wrapper called MiniBrowser:
http://blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/2011/11/04/webkit2-gtk-minibrowser-ported-to-gtk-api/
That may be enough for many people's needs, and they can simply not
include Epiphany into their images if it's too big and bloated or whatever.
Alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-15 14:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-15 9:46 Webkit-gtk will be updated to latest upstream; midori browser to be replaced with Epiphany Alexander Kanavin
2015-06-15 11:53 ` [OE-core] " Andreas Müller
2015-06-15 11:53 ` Andreas Müller
2015-06-15 14:24 ` [OE-core] " Burton, Ross
2015-06-15 14:24 ` Burton, Ross
2015-06-15 14:24 ` Burton, Ross
2015-06-15 14:44 ` Alexander Kanavin [this message]
2015-06-15 14:44 ` Alexander Kanavin
2015-06-16 6:50 ` [OE-core] " Andreas Müller
2015-06-16 6:50 ` Andreas Müller
2015-06-16 12:39 ` [OE-core] " Alexander Kanavin
2015-06-16 12:39 ` Alexander Kanavin
2015-06-16 13:27 ` [OE-core] " Andreas Müller
2015-06-16 13:27 ` Andreas Müller
2015-06-16 13:30 ` Gary Thomas
2015-06-16 13:36 ` Andreas Müller
2015-06-17 13:32 ` Gary Thomas
2015-06-16 13:37 ` [OE-core] " Alexander Kanavin
2015-06-16 13:37 ` Alexander Kanavin
2015-06-16 13:40 ` [OE-core] " Alexander Kanavin
2015-06-16 13:40 ` [oe] " Alexander Kanavin
2015-06-16 13:40 ` [oe] " Alexander Kanavin
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