Webkit Browser (Safari's Engine) with Beta Release

[kinetic]

Hello AdamB!

I have installed your webkit but it seems very slow. I can't even input anything at the browser. Is this a known issue and if so is there any workaround ?

Iliad v2.12 with latest DP and mtxvr 4.

Best Regards,

Kinetic

[yokos]

Hey I just forgot to tell that Midori is very cool.
Without checking the Midori settings I started to compile THE anonymity tool tor.
It's annoying that Privoxy wanna have a have a own user id & groop.
Then I checked the settings & found out the proxy settings are grayed out. Is it a not compiled feature or disabled somewhere?

[begleiter]

AdamB - Thanks for the contribution!

"Could you provide more howto run details for the n00bs (e.g., me ) ?"
[EDIT] ok, found it at: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Ilia...e#Web_Browsers

[wallcraft]

AdamB's initial post to this thread started with a desire for a "good, working, web browser on the iLiad". I fully agree, but, although I applaud all the hard work that has gone into them, my conclusion so far is that none of the existing iLiad web browsers are good enough for routine use.

For some reason I ended up on a GPE webpage today. It mentions image viewing and web browsing components I was not aware of. This browser was not on the list of WebKit/GTK+ apps for the very good reason that it is using the older GtkWebcore libraries instead. On the other hand, it was definitely designed for handheld devices. Does anyone have experience with this browser on a Linux handheld? The image viewer (and file manager) might also be worth porting to the iLiad.

Not being a developer, all I can do is nag from the sidelines. The Kindle's very basic web browser has opened my eyes to what the iLiad should be capable of. It ignores most style sheets (even in "advanced" mode), but it displays simple web sites well and has bookmarks. It is also possible that what I am looking for is achievable with one of the existing browsers and an appropriate web portal. Any suggestions?

[Antartica]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

AdamB's initial post to this thread started with a desire for a "good, working, web browser on the iLiad". I fully agree, but, although I applaud all the hard work that has gone into them, my conclusion so far is that none of the existing iLiad web browsers are good enough for routine use.

This can be interesting, then:

It seems that there is a company trying to bring a web browser to the iliad: see this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN2RIhviKEY&NR=1

The company web names it as "Particle Browser BETA":
http://www.hficompany.com/news.html

It certainly looks more polished than the current web browsers for the iliad... but there is no word about availability on that web.

[Dabon]

WOW!!
We can only hope to take advantage of such great browser very soon...

[wallcraft]

This is very interesting. It requires a server, but perhaps this could be any desktop PC. From HFI FAQs:

Q. What components make up HFI systems?
A. There are two essential components to our systems, the thin client network agent on devices, and the server software running the processing behind the scenes.

[carandol]

Originally Posted by wallcraft

This is very interesting. It requires a server, but perhaps this could be any desktop PC. From HFI FAQs:

Or maybe it could be iRex running the server and us connecting to it via IDS. That would be an upgrade to look forward to!

[Hisko]

As an increasing number of websites changed over to the https protocol, the support for SSL is needed. Does Midori supports SSL?
(Dillo does not: "can't start dpid daemon")

BTW Thanks to porting quys

Hisko

[Hisko]

Dear Adam,

An index-file with a link as:

<a href="internet/C/index.html" target="_top">Internet</a>

does not work in midori (and also not in dillo). Whereas

<a href="internet/CCC/index.html" target="_top">Internet</a>

does work (with changing the /C subdir in /CCC).

I wanted to have the Ubuntu 8.04 Help on my iLiad. The only web crawler capable to handle "https: help.ubuntu.com/8.04" was wget. As a result I got a full copy of
__ help.ubuntu.com/8.04
_____ /Item1
_________ /C
____________ content1.html
____________ other1.ext
_____ /Item2
_________ ...
_____ /...
_____ /Last Item
_________ ...
_____ index.html

A modified index.html is attached.
I tried /a instead of /C with negative result.
As mentioned above replacing /C by /CCC works positive, also removing the intermediate /C sub (thus .../Item1/Index.html etc) works positive.
The problem is only on my iLiad, not on my laptop or desktop.

Questions:
Is this an error in the linux kernel or modules used by Midori and Dillo?
Can this behaviour beeing fixed?

As for a work around: Replace in all downloaded html files "/C/" by "/" Something like grep "/C/" > sed? -R "/C/" "/" ?

Thanks
Hisko

[wallcraft]

Originally Posted by Hisko

The only web crawler capable to handle "https: help.ubuntu.com/8.04" was wget.

Plucker may be another option for off-line web page viewing. Plucker files are created from web pages by (say) Sunrise XP and are readable via FBReader.

[Hisko]

Dear Wallcraft,
Thank you for your answer.
However SunriseXP is not able to handle https: pages. Failed:"Internet connection is offline" or in update log
"notHandled: 4294967295 an SSL-enabled server port.<br />"
Because of your answer I tried Plucker-Desktop again, not with the build-in browser but IE7. Now I got a browsable .pdb copy! The result however lacks the original web layout aswell as the link icons are not allways placed and displayed correctly.

The best web copy results I got from Teleport Pro (however no https, Webcloner and wget in Linux. The reason is that they copy the web sites exactly and do not make their own interpretation. Only wget is freeware.

Thus I still stick with a nice set of copied (sub-)directories, 100% perfect on my laptop, but because of the "/C/" issue worthless for the Dillo or Midori browsers.

PS: Minimo is OK for https pages!
But for offline browsing also can't handle the "/C" in the link path.

[Hisko]

Addition:
Minimo shows that "/C/" issue is handled correctly for url's, but not for offline file links

This leaves 2 questions:
- https (ssl) in midori?
- can the "/C/" issue beeing solved for offline browsing?

And I support all request for an improved screen management in Midori

[cartesius]

Hi Adam,

Would you be so kind to explain how to compile/install the webkit/gtk for the Ilaid dev platform?
I have been trying to do that for the better part of the morning with no success.

Thank you,
C.