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

[Richard Purdie]

On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 15:18 +0100, Phil Blundell wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-08-22 at 15:04 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> WebKit itself comes with a bunch of test wrappers (and tests!) for
> different platforms and if the aim of the exercise is to test webkit
> then it seems like maybe we should just be installing and using those.
> Midori would be fine for testing the parts of webkit that it uses, but
> obviously it doesn't exercise anything other than the Gtk port which
> still leaves you with a bit of a hole in your coverage.

I think ultimately we need both, a real world user of webkit and also a
webkit-ptest type package too. They both let us test different things,
one probably more quickly than the other, with the other being more
complete.

Cheers,

Richard