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

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 16:24 +0200, Samuel Stirtzel wrote:
> 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).

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