Epiphany marches on

Previously in this space we saw how the bright future of Epiphany looked like, and vague promises about incremental steps towards it were done. A month later, Epiphany 3.3.4 is out there , so let’s see how well we’ve done. There’s a lot of new stuff here, so let’s go step by step.

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The Web comes to GNOME, ready or not

Last week, together with GNOME 3.0 , we released Epiphany 3.0. This is the result of many months of work (our last stable release was Epiphany 2.30 in May 2010), so I think a few lines about our present and our future are in order.

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WebKitGTK+ hackfest 2010

After  the daily reports written by Diego in  his blog , few more things can be told about the  WebKitGTK+ hackfest hosted at the  Igalia offices last week, but I’d like to comment anyway some impressions from my personal point of view, if you don’t mind reading them. First of all, this was the second time I attended to this hackfest (I “kind of” attended  last year hackfest as well) but now things were pretty different for me, basically because one year ago I was not part of the Igalia WebKit team yet, hence my contributions in the hackfest were pretty small (see my post back then for more details)

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jpeg decoder in gst-dsp

Do you remember this comment ? Well, I took the challenge, and it has been hard to accomplish.

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Quo vadis, Epiphany

It’s time for a brief (and late!) recap of some of the most notorious things we did in Epiphany for 2.30, and a short update on what’s already happening in the road to 3.0. 2.30 For 2.30 we focused on fixing all the regressions introduced by the switch to WebKit in 2.28. Overall we did a pretty good job, and there’s only a few things missing to reach the no-regressions goal.

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A few days in Lisbon

Starting this Saturday I’m going to spend a few days (at least 7) in Lisbon. Not really on holidays, but since my company is awesome and I just have to do my hours from anywhere I want I figured I might as well see a bit more of the world I live in. So here’s the deal: if you live in the city, or near, and want to talk about free software , WebKit , GNOME , politics or metaphysics and get a free lunch, you can get that and in exchange you only have to show me around a bit.

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Maemo moments.

Things have been a bit lumpy in the Maemo community this week.

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WebKitGTK+ Hackfest – Day G_MAXINT

Haven’t blogged about the hackfest since the day zero (although others have done a great job ), but I guess I have a good excuse since we have been working all day every day, no time for blogging! A lot of progress was made in many areas, but I can try to give a brief summary: Gustavo and myself focused on fixing the form password saving regression during the first days. We wrote the basic code to hook into the webviews using JSC, store the auth data in the keyring, and refactored the Epiphany codebase a bit to be able to show infobars with the available options when submitting a form, like most browsers do. I know this was one of the most painful shortcomings of the browser for a lot of people, so I’m happy to put it behind us

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WebKitGTK+ Hackfest – Day Zero

Arrived yesterday night to Coruña for the WebKitGTK+ hackfest , a couple of hours before Gustavo did. Today he and I kicked off the day zero of the hackfest, before everybody arrives starting tomorrow. We spent the whole day hacking on form login/password saving, and despite some issues with GNOME keyring being unhappy and dying on us, I can say we made good progress for one day of work: This is epiphany/webkit master auto-filling my twitter.com login/password after launch, which as some people know is one of our last nasty regressions .

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