[sldev] Re: Webkit (Re: CMake preview available - please try it out!)

[Callum Lerwick]

On Fri, 2008-02-01 at 16:22 -0800, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> We've been pretty frustrated with llmozlib as well, to be honest, and 
> we're evaluating alternatives.  One option that we're considering is Webkit:
> http://webkit.org/

Hrm. Maybe there's hope then.

It appears WebKit is already in Fedora...

> It's one of many, many things on our plate, and as a result, hasn't 
> gotten a thorough look, though Tofu has done quite a bit of tinkering.  
> We know that it's generally easier to build and get going with than 
> Mozilla, and we understand that rendering to a surface potentially
> will 
> work better with it, and that the prognosis is much better that we 
> wouldn't need a funky forked version of the code.  However, we could 
> probably use some help from someone really, really frustrated with 
> Mozilla to help us out with a deeper investigation.  Any volunteers?

I already have "Finish OpenAL" and now it seems "work on cmake" on my to
do list, among other things...

Let it be known that whatever LL goes with, whether it be mozilla or
WebKit or something else, in following with Fedora's mantra of
"Upstream, upstream, upstream!" I have no interest in introducing a fork
of something as big, complex and security critical as a web browser to
Fedora. LL must push any necessary changes upstream for this Fedora
packaging thing to work out.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream
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