[jbosstools-dev] SWT XulRunner 17 + Webkit - Fwd: [eclipse-dev] Eclipse project Kepler plan updated

[Yahor Radtsevich]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen <manderse at redhat.com>wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I just saw this on eclipse-dev where SWT Browser is being suggested to be
> updated.
>
> " (new) SWT browser currency. Significant work is required in the SWT
> browser widget to support the latest browser runtimes. As part of this
> effort we will add browser support for XULRunner 17. We will also
> investigate supporting WebKit on Windows based on the Chromium CEF3
> project. [SWT] (405029, 405031)"
>
> What does that mean for us ?
>
XULRunner 17 is useless for VPE, because it does not have JavaXPCOM
bindings.

Support of Chromium CEF3 would be very useful for BrowserSim, especially on
Windows (now we use Safari which is not supported by Apple anymore). And if
they add JavaScript debugging support, BrowserSim would get the most
missing piece. The dark side of CEF3 support is that we will need to ship
it with our plugins.
Related BrowserSim JIRA: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-13364

>
> If they do this without contiuing to support older Xulrunners we could
> have problems, right?
>
Right, but I do not think they are going to drop support of XULRunner 1.9.
They already support several versions of XULRunner, adding one more version
should not be a problem for them.

>
> webkit/chromium sounds like a good thing for us.
>
> /max
>
> ----- Forwarded message from John Arthorne <John_Arthorne at ca.ibm.com>
> -----
>
> >From: John Arthorne <John_Arthorne at ca.ibm.com>
> >To: eclipse-dev at eclipse.org
> >Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 16:28:26 -0400
> >Subject: [eclipse-dev] Eclipse project Kepler plan updated
> >
> >An updated draft of the Eclipse project plan for the Kepler (June 2013)
> >release is now available:
> >
> >
> http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/plans/eclipse_project_plan_4_3.xml
> >
> >Notable changes:
> > - Most plan items marked as committed
> > - Plan item to add support for Microsoft UIA accessibility API has been
> >deferred. Some progress was made but it won't be completed for Kepler.
> > - Two new plan items for SWT browser work, and introduction of Eclipse
> >Platform 4 API.
> >
> >John
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Yahor Radtsevich
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