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Hi,

I've been searching the internet for the WebKit browser that is being developed for the N800.

See here for details:
http://www.sand-labs.org/owb/wiki/OwbN800

But I cannot find a compiled version anywhere, anybody knows what to do to get this to work (without to all kinds of terminal commands) ?

Would be nice, I personally expect a great perfomance boost when using webkit instead of the mozilla engine now provided, what's your take on this ?

As far as we know, it's dead.

I believe there is a Webkit component being worked on at Nokia slowly. No, I don't think you'd see much of a performance boost, if any.

I have compiled and run it. It is not usable, since the interface is incomplete and it is very unstable.

What about this project?

Posting cached site, since the git repo right now is "forbidden"...

It seems that it is definitely not dead but the GIT repo has gone offline since this blogger published they were releasing the code.


http://blog.gwright.org.uk/articles/...al-goes-public

Naah, if you look at the Google cache - the last commit was only 29 hours ago.

The sand-labs OWB browser looks very much alive judging by the activity being recorded in this page - to their credit they're being more transparent and open than the other WebKit for Maemo development effort.

I'm not sure we need two independent WebKit browsers though, and the forked nature of the OWB browser is the wrong path to take in my mind.

I think webkit perfomance will be better than gecko, since webkit is less of a memory hog. It's being used on a lot more low power cpu devices.

It was my impression that Nokia was focusing their WebKit efforts on the web browser for their Symbian phones. I don't remember them saying they would be switching from the Mozilla engine on Maemo (especially after having finally moved away from Opera).

Question being why don't the get the two teams collaborating and focus on the maemo webkit project instead of the gecko being that 100 million s60 phones use that already?