View source for Browse/WebKit

= Introduction = 
Webkit is a lightweight browser engine, comparable to Gecko.  This page documents the procedure and results of replacing Gecko with WebKit in Browse.  If you just want to try it, grab the latest bundle from
 http://dev.laptop.org/~bobbyp
It should have the libraries you need in the bundle to run it on an XO with one of the recent F9-based joyrides.

= Dependencies =
[http://webkit.org/ WebKit] and [http://code.google.com/p/pywebkitgtk/ PyWebkitGtk] are the dependencies for this project, and RPMs for F9 don't exist yet.  For WebKit:
 http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/UsingGitWithWebKit
is a good reference.  The Git repository is just a git-svn mirror of the Subversion one, so choose your fancy.


Next, is PyWebKitGtk
 http://code.google.com/p/pywebkitgtk/
There is a Subversion repository on the Google Code branch, but they [http://www.unpluggable.com/?p=173 mention] that the main development goes on in git
 git clone git://repo.or.cz/pywebkitgtk.git


WebKit might take a while, but they should both be relatively stable.


= Browse branch =
I started with the master branch of Browse from 
 http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=web-activity;a=summary
and my branch is located here
 http://dev.laptop.org/git?p=users/bobbyp/browse;a=summary
 git://dev.laptop.org/users/bobbyp/browse

I tried to keep the code and methods as close as possible to the original Browse.


= Issues = 
'''What Works'''
* Page titles are updated correctly
* Browse navigates to addresses you type in the titlebar
* Load status is displayed
* Reload and stop buttons work
* Zoom buttons work

'''What... Doesn't'''
* Saving and resuming to Journal (probably not too hard)
* Back, Forward and History (probably not too hard)
* Gnash or plugins (no idea)
* probably the search bar
* probably copy and paste (easy)