webbrowser-app team mailing list archive

[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Lars Knudsen <larsgk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:40 PM, Olivier Tilloy <
> olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Lars Knudsen <larsgk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>> Hi Vincent,
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>>> I think snowshoe with qtwebkit has been chosen for Ubuntu Mobile.
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>> This is not correct. We are developing our own browser shell based on
>> QtWebKit. It’s named webbrowser-app (see
>> https://launchpad.net/webbrowser-app for code, bugs and translations).
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> Aaa ok - sorry about that confusion.
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>> Note that the shell/UI is decoupled from the rendering engine. We’re
>> currently using QtWebKit, based on WebKit2, but we’re not discarding any
>> other options (e.g. if a QML port for blink emerges). We currently don’t
>> have the resources to embark on creating our own port, though.
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> Sounds good - especially if a blinq or the like emerges.
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> How is the browser handling the virtual keyboard, etc. on the mobile
> devices atm?
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Pretty well I must say :)
We’re using maliit, and it integrates nicely with QtWebKit.
I’m cc’ing Thomas who’s responsible for the OSK architecture in Ubuntu
Touch, he’s the one to poke to get all the details.

Cheers,

 Olivier