Using webkit 1.8 for the LTS(?)

[Micah Gersten]

On 11/30/2011 04:41 PM, Sebastian Heinlein wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 29.11.2011, 20:27 -0500 schrieb Rodney Dawes:
>> On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 19:55 +0100, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
>>> What is your take on using webkit 1.8? Is that choice good for other 
>>> teams? Is there any issue or concern you have about updating?
>> As an aside, but also a valid issue, regardless of the version we go
>> with... are there any sort of plans on getting Flash working inside the
>> GTK3 version of webkit, out of the box?
> "Thanks to the multiprocess architecture, WebKit2GTK+ solves the problem
> of using flash (or any other plugin using GTK+2) with GTK+3. The UI
> process depends unconditonally on GTK+3 and the plugin process is always
> built with GTK+2. And of course, flash will never crash or block your
> web browser. Plugins are broken in WebKitGTK+ 1.7.1 due to a bug that
> has already been fixed, so in order to try it out you need to either
> wait until 1.7.2 is released or build WebKit from current git master."
>
> http://blogs.igalia.com/carlosgc/2011/11/04/webkit2-gtk-minibrowser-ported-to-gtk-api/
>

Right, but I thought WebKit2GTK+ was still going to be in beta for 1.8
which means that we probably wouldn't use it and it wouldn't solve any
of our problems.

Thanks,
Micah
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