khtml / webkit browser?

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stephandale · Post by **stephandale** » Thu May 17, 2007 6:49 pm

Hi all.

I'm interested in testing the rendering engine used by Safari, under Gentoo.

I was wondering whether anyone knew if there is a khtml (or webkit?) based browser available in portage, other than Konqueror - I don't want to install kdelibs and kdebase (62M with dependencies) just to get Konqueror.

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Thu May 17, 2007 8:33 pm

emerge konqueror
there is no other

Gergan Penkov · Post by **Gergan Penkov** » Thu May 17, 2007 10:46 pm

not quite right

gtk webcore, but it is still very alpha.

stephandale · Post by **stephandale** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:26 am

Many thanks.

gtk-webcore looks interesting, though I couldn't find it in portage searching for webcore, gtk-webcore or osb-browser. I'll keep my eye on it.

Until then, I think I'll bite the bullet and install konqueror. It seems to have got lots of good reviews so perhaps it's time I gave it a go.

dtoo · Post by **dtoo** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 11:48 am

midori - Web browser
Epiphany+Webkit

Keeping eye more

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 12:53 pm

Gergan Penkov wrote:not quite right
gtk webcore, but it is still very alpha.

Yes, it's been in that state for a couple of years or something like that. (I don't have exact numbers, but I tried it long ago, and there has been no noise about it in the last months, I am not sure it is good to put hopes on it). There was an overlay for it somewhere, though I no longer have it on my portage dirs, and I don't know where did I find it. Googling should help, but unless something secretly changed, it is not usable.

dtoo wrote:midori - Web browser
Epiphany+Webkit

Keeping eye more

Thanks, I will take a look at these.

baeksu · Post by **baeksu** » Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:23 pm

There's also some kde devs playing around with the idea of building a small webkit-based browser, called "Napoleon". It's a long way from becoming a real project, though.

lethalman · Post by **lethalman** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 11:04 pm

Stay tuned, webkit-gtk is getting even more complete every day

wah_wah_69 · Post by **wah_wah_69** » Thu Jan 31, 2008 11:23 am

is there any 3rd party ebuild for midori ?

Edit: Yes there is http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=140454

Post by **Voyageur** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:51 pm

When gnome 2.22 is released, we'll have an easy way to test epiphany with webkit (for now it means installing devel glib/gtk, ...). Until then, midori is small, fast, even if it still lacks some features, it already does a lot for a 0.0.17 version

wah_wah_69 · Post by **wah_wah_69** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 8:46 pm

According to a post in the midori homepage.

Webkit does support ns flash with a non official patch.

Webkit 30001 in conjunction with the following inofficial patch makes the flash plugin in midori work.

http://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?i ... ction=view

Post by **Voyageur** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:28 am

Netscape plugins support is around the corner:
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14750

I'll probably test that soon with midori or epiphany

HecHacker1 · Post by **HecHacker1** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 5:48 am

I just wanted to keep this thread alive. I recently built a from git source webkit-gtk (with --enable-svg-animation) and midori (Today's source) and midori is working beautifully.

The fonts are a bit small on some webpages, but otherwise it works well, and is rediculously fast compared to firefox.

And look at my acid3 score. 99! It should be considering midori is just a skin on top of webkit

http://ordorica.org/misc/midori-acid3.png

Sadako · Post by **Sadako** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:50 am

I'm using midori too, and it is beautiful, however somewhat incomplete.

Both midori and epiphany have a lot of options "greyed out", such as Save As, is this the same for every one?

Anyway, both a live git ebuild of midori and frequently updated snapshot ebuilds of webkit-gtk are in sunrise, amd it's really simple to modify the epiphany ebuild to use webkit-gtk.

HecHacker1 · Post by **HecHacker1** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 3:28 pm

Hopeless wrote:I'm using midori too, and it is beautiful, however somewhat incomplete.

Both midori and epiphany have a lot of options "greyed out", such as Save As, is this the same for every one?

Anyway, both a live git ebuild of midori and frequently updated snapshot ebuilds of webkit-gtk are in sunrise, amd it's really simple to modify the epiphany ebuild to use webkit-gtk.

is epiphany any more feature complete than midori? On my build there are missing options too, and history doesn't work. But browsing works fine. And does it depend on gnome libraries? i didn't know about the sunrise overlay, i'll have to look into it.

Sadako · Post by **Sadako** » Tue Apr 22, 2008 6:13 pm

HecHacker1 wrote:is epiphany any more feature complete than midori? On my build there are missing options too, and history doesn't work. But browsing works fine. And does it depend on gnome libraries? i didn't know about the sunrise overlay, i'll have to look into it.

From what I can tell there is very little epiphany has that midori doesn't, and a lot of that is only configurable/usable via gnome (for example proxy support), so it's not much use to me.

The only thing epiphany doesn't depend on when built against webkit-gtk is firefox or xulrunner, it is still very much a gnome application.

stephandale · Post by **stephandale** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:35 pm

Turns out that Safari runs via Wine now that it's available for Windows. There's a good guide here: http://wine-review.blogspot.com/2008/03 ... -wine.html

It works for me.

- Install and set up wine.
- Download safari for XP.
- emerge corefonts.
- Copy corefonts to wine fonts directory. cp /usr/share/fonts/corefonts/* ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/.
- Install safari, deselecting bonjour and update options. wine SafariSetup.exe.
- Run safari. wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Safari/Safari.exe.

Genone · Post by **Genone** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 10:55 pm

www-client/arora is another webkit based browser (using qt-4 this time).

makism · Post by **makism** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:50 am

install epiphany, and enable webkit manualy in the ebuild.
in the pkg_setup, add something like:

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G2CONF="${G2CONF} --with-engine=webkit"

and comment out any references to xulrunner and firefox

it`s pretty neat and really fast and smooth when parsing/rendering dynamic js/css and stuff

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