WebKit experiment on hold

[Peter Bloomfield]

Hi All!

Balsa has for some time included experimental code for using WebKit to  
render HTML message parts, instead of GtkHTML-2 or -3.  Recent versions of  
WebKit (1.1.10+) have been causing hangs, which are fixed in git master,  
but instead don't render anything.  I've recently found some spam that  
crashes earlier versions.  So as of now we have no reliable way of using  
WebKit in Balsa.

The rendering problem with recent WebKit does not seem to be a WebKit  
bug--a simple test program uses it successfully.  We'd welcome any  
insights into why it doesn't work in Balsa!

Best,

Peter


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[Peter Bloomfield]

On 11/05/2009 09:07:13 PM Thu, Peter Bloomfield wrote:

> Hi All!
>
> Balsa has for some time included experimental code for using WebKit to  
> render HTML message parts, instead of GtkHTML-2 or -3.  Recent versions  
> of WebKit (1.1.10+) have been causing hangs, which are fixed in git  
> master, but instead don't render anything.  I've recently found some  
> spam that crashes earlier versions.  So as of now we have no reliable  
> way of using WebKit in Balsa.
>
> The rendering problem with recent WebKit does not seem to be a WebKit  
> bug--a simple test program uses it successfully.  We'd welcome any  
> insights into why it doesn't work in Balsa!
>
> Best,
>
> Peter

Good news!  The rendering problem is fixed in git master.

Another recent HTML change is the beginning of a text-search capability in  
HTML message parts, using a WebKit option.  You can find a string--but as  
of now, the widget doesn't scroll to display the found text...still a work  
in progress.

Peter
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