Port of Gnome Web (Epiphany)

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Webkit2 will mean if one tab crashes, it will not bring down the whole browser.
How far is the progress on the Webkit2 port?

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There is another forum thread tracking that progress…

https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/my-progress-on-webkit2-port/

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That thread hasn’t been updated in over 2 months.

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Time perception varies with age. Source: /me “Two months? you mean yesterday?” :smiley:

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You can work on the UI of webpositive without touching webkit at all.

Severall people have contributed to webpositive but not haikuwebkit. : )

Also for the speculation here:
Webkit2 will not fix any rendering issues on it’s own.

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Yes, that’s the last time I touched it. That’s why I would much appreciate a few more people having a look and helping me, because I maintain several other projects and I don’t have time to make significant progress on it.

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I fully support this vision and always try WebPositive first. Kudos for all the effort and great work you put in there! It should become the Safari for Haiku, a native, lean and fast, standard compliant default browser.

There are still some crasher bugs I don’t really get (recently had it repeatedly crash on a session with 2 tabs, will try to find the URLs again and report), but it got a lot better already, e.g. GitHub was barely working some months ago and now it’s quite fine already.

I’m currently blocked with another project and not familiar with the codebase, but maybe we could set up a bounty and/or hackathon that brings you together with somebody that has more intimate Mediakit knowledge?
I’d fully support that with a donation and with testing.

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Good app. Thank you.
Only, perhaps in the Haiku environment it should be called “Gnome Web” or “Epiphany” or “WebEpiphany” instead of just “Web”, which is too categorical and assumes it’s the main Haiku web browser.

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