Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The Future of Epiphany

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 17:41 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> >
> >  On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 17:29 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote:
> >  > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> >  > >  On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 10:12 -0500, Jason D. Clinton wrote:
> >  > >  > On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Christian Persch <chpe gnome org> wrote:
> >  > >  > >   This single back-end will be * WebKit *.
> >  > >  >
> >  > >  > Hoping this is not an April Fool's joke, also. +1
> >  > >  I hope it's one or that Christian will help fixor Totem's browser plugin
> >  > >  to not use XPCOM.
> >  >
> >  > It does not link against any part of gecko
> >  Yes, it does.
> 
> Uhm...
> 

> [patrys purrr browser-plugin]$ rpm -q -R browser-plugin-totem

Your RPM is missing a dependency on the mozilla/Firefox libraries. We
don't link against it directly, as the linkage is resolved at run-time.
We do link against it directly for xulrunner, as the API is (more)
stable.

> >  >  so does it need anything
> >  > more than a working copy of npapi.h?
> >  Yes.
> 
> What exactly?

XPCOM, the document DOM, even the Timer usage to launch the
totem-plugin-viewer helper.

See:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=520629

And the WebKit plugin support isn't finished either:
http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14750