From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from dan.rpsys.net (dan.rpsys.net [93.97.175.187]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAE406B1FC for ; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:16:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (dan.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) by dan.rpsys.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id r7NBQT72012012; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:28:20 +0100 X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at dan.rpsys.net Received: from dan.rpsys.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (dan.rpsys.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id odpcoZiRcH3P; Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:28:20 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.3.10] (rpvlan0 [192.168.3.10]) (authenticated bits=0) by dan.rpsys.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Debian-2.1ubuntu1) with ESMTP id r7NBSGTI012027 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:28:17 +0100 Message-ID: <1377256570.6762.57.camel@ted> From: Richard Purdie To: Samuel Stirtzel Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:16:10 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: <1377180295.6762.19.camel@ted> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: openembedded-core Subject: Re: RFC: Web browsing and HTML in OE-Core X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:16:27 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 16:24 +0200, Samuel Stirtzel wrote: > 2013/8/22 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 (e.g. kiosk type devices, digital > > signs and so on). > > > > 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 for something with a small number of > > additional dependencies. I therefore currently think this is something > > we should make a decision to include since it gives us significantly > > better coverage of things like webkit which are a already in the core > > yet totally untested at present. > > > > I'm open to opinions, equally we do need to make a decision on this soon > > since we're nearly at the feature freeze point. Thoughts? > > > Hi, > > just some thoughts: Qt provides an example application that uses > webkit called "fancybrowser" > This demo it is located at the package qt4-examples > (/usr/bin/qt4/examples/webkit/fancybrowser/ in the target sysroot). The webkit with qt is a bit different from the standalone webkit and would just test the qt version. Certainly something to think about but I'm not sure its quite what we need... Cheers, Richard