[OE-core] RFC: Web browsing and HTML in OE-Core

[Samuel Stirtzel]

2013/8/22 Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>:
> 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).


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Regards
Samuel