Here’s a cheat sheet for all the WebKit repositories.SVN: http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit. This is always the latest and greatest WebKit code since SVN is the version control used for WebKit code. To checkout trunk, you would do ‘svn co http://…
I find this script (notify-me) most useful when I build webkit 🙂
Just ‘make && notify-me’. You will get a tray notification when the build is complete. Code is not mine, it’s ripped from some site.
#!/usr/bin/env python
“””This is a python 2.5 script that creates a notification using dbus.”””
import dbus
item = (‘org.freedesktop.Notifications’)
path = (‘/org/freedesktop/Notifications’)
interface = (‘org.freedesktop.Notifications’)
icon = ”
array = ”
hint = ”
time = 10000 # Use seconds x 1000
app_name = (‘Test Application’)
title = (‘Whatever it is, is done’)
body = (‘Its all over.’)
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
notif = bus.get_object(item, path)
notify = dbus.Interface(notif, interface)
notify.Notify(app_name, 0, icon, title, body, array, hint, time)
I have been away from WebKit development for a while. There were some pressing matters in Maemo6 to attend to.One of the things I am working on is the Flash support for Maemo6. And I am finding that the abstractions of QGV, meegotouch, Qt/WebKit are “a…
After my implementation of local rendering, Flash plays quite well on the N900. In fact, with a plain Qt flash loader (npploader – git://git.forwardbias.in/npploader.git), I get ~70fps. With a QWebView, the fps goes down to around ~50fps. With a QGraphicsWebView, the fps goes to around 55fps. Tested with fps tester.
This is not so bad but youtube was still rendering very badly compared to Fennec. With help from Nokia folks, I found out that the codec being served for Fennec is H.263 Sorenson and Qt/WebKit was being served H.264. The difference in quality would have been blindingly obvious had I paid more attention 🙂 On the n900, Sorenson Spark is the fast codec that is hardware accelerated (Documented here). If you use N900 to watch Youtube, append &fmt=5 to the Youtube url for better viewing.
Youtube serves sorenson based on the UA and I did some elaborate tests to figure what exactly it was looking for in the UA so we can add the same to Qt/WebKit for Maemo5. The long result is below. The short result is that it expects “Firefox/3.5” and “Maemo Browser” in the UA. Unfortunately, we cannot add “Firefox/3.5” as that would mean Qt/WebKit might get served Fennec optimized sites 🙁
One options, of course, is to contact Youtube and ask them to serve a different codec for Qt/WebKit’s UA but we are not pursuing this because this is really not important 🙂 I have a patch to Qt/WebKit that adds “Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser” to our UA for *.youtube.com by extending the existing QWebPage::userAgentForUrl(). Simon and Harald are brooding over whether we should bother adding this change. Time will tell whether we will apply it.
Results of the test:
Current Qt/WebKit UA – Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3
Current Fennec UA – Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux armv7l; en-US; rv:1.9.2.1) Gecko/20100126 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8 RX=51 N900
H.264 desktop UI
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Firefox/3.5
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Firefox/3.5 N900
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 N900
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Firefox Maemo
Mobile UI (same ui as m.youtube.com – 3gp/rtsp)
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Maemo Browser
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8 RX=51
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8 RX=51 N900
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 N900/Maemo Browser
Sorenson + desktop UI
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8 RX=51
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Firefox/3.5 Maemo Browser 1.7.4.8 RX=51 N900
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Firefox/3.5 N900/Maemo Browser
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Qt/4.7.0 Mobile Safari/533.3 Firefox Maemo Browser
For the past week or two, I have been working on getting Flash to work on Maemo5/N900. Read more about it here.Today, I fixed a part of 44594. For mobile, it would be very efficient if Flash gets notified when it goes out of view or when the browser is…