Re: WebKit engine for default browser
 

All I can say is: WOW, great job:D
With the default engine for example engadget took forever to load, webkit is much faster. I hope we will see this on Pandora one day.

Re: WebKit engine for default browser
 

I installed your packages to test them out. I installed this with "sudo dpkg -i package1 package2 package3" in the terminal; the less hair-raising alternative to "red pill mode".

This is a nice package. I really like that you've made it easy to switch between browser rendering engines. (Although it would be nice if the little app for that was listed in the Control Panel instead of the main menu).

Awesomely fast! With the old Gecko engine, it was EMBARASSING how long it took to load the locally stored home page. With the webkit engine, that page is rendered and usable much more quickly. Google maps operates better, too, although Street View doesn't seem to work. (Just gives a grey box).

The lack of finger scrolling so far isn't too bad. I'm liking being able to select things so easily. (Although I wouldn't mind having finger scroll back).

The widget with the web page hoardes any events sent to it, so key events like Fullscreen and Menu, even though unused, do not make their way out to the parent widget while it is focused. Widgets which do that are a pet peve of mine ;)

Again, this is astoundingly great. Practically seamless, too. Fantastic work. If not Main, may this hit Extras with grace and dignity!

Re: WebKit engine for default browser
 

seems i may have overestimated the bulk of libicu.

have it all installed now, and throwing engadget or cnet at webkit is kinda fun to watch. what takes longest is the darn adds ;)

Re: WebKit engine for default browser
 

Great Job.

Zoom keys and full screen switch doesn't work.

Re: WebKit engine for default browser
 

Thank you for all your good words, I'm glad you like this project. Now I'm trying to fix found problems, will post update when it's done.
And happy holidays!

Re: WebKit engine for default browser
 

Please also consider releasing the source! Personally, I doubt there's much I could do with it, but I'm sure some others would be happy to continue and expand on your work to make this even better!

Re: WebKit engine for default browser
 

Hi pronvit,

I'm loving this. It's awesome so far.

Is it me or is Flash even playing faster which would make no sense to me? I'm rewatching youtube videos again and there IS less to no frame skipping. I uninstalled some stuff to free up space before installing webkit so this could be the reason for the difference. A flash benchmark will reveal the truth.

Here are my findings on the problems:
1. It crashes most every time a page is loading and I click the stop icon. when I try to browse after stopping is when it crashes.

2. when typing like I am right now, I have to hold the shift or ctrl button while typing a letter or upper case letter. I can't just click the shift key, let go, then type the 'i' key to get a capital 'I'.

3. I have to click either the inner browser window or the outer frame to get certain things to work. If I want the min/max to work I have to first touch the outer frame or the min/max will not work. If I want my scroll hardware to scroll the page up or down I have to first give focus (touch) the web page first.

4. If I scroll down to the middle or bottom of a page and then click through to another, the scroll bars are left where I was on the previous page. ie half way down, etc.

5. I can't shut off flash. I personally have it off most all of the time to save processing time, memory and not see stupid advertisements.

6. Wherever I browse, within a website, the url does not update page to page. So on internettablettalk I am still showing as being at the main url even though I am on this thread.

Thanks again and I hope some of this helps.

Re: WebKit engine for default browser
 

http://mifki.s3-external-3.amazonaws..._0.0.6.tar.bz2
http://mifki.s3.amazonaws.com/engine...mifki1.tar.bz2

webkit itself from nightly builds page, in browser-daemon only preloading microb engine removed, browser-eal and microb-eal updated to latest versions without changes

Re: WebKit engine for default browser
 

Question!

How could you compile webkit nightly version R39370 on scratchbox?
When I tried, I got this error message in the configure step.

To solve this problem, I compiled and installed bison 2.4 on scratchbox.
Finally I passed this problem, and then completed configure step.

But in the compile step, I got new error message.

How could you solve this problem?

Re: WebKit engine for default browser
 

You need bison 2.2, its not working with bison 2.4. I had the same problem before.

I have 39474 compiled and working if someone wants it (and with more features enabled). 100/100 on Acid 3.

http://bundyo.org/maemo/webkit/libwe...9474_armel.deb

And dev:
http://bundyo.org/maemo/webkit/libwe...n39474_all.deb

Thanks to pronvit for hinting me that my builds were working from the beginning and the problem was in my TV. :)