Re:minibrowser and Y! mail

Hello Dan,

> (This posting is basically just a cut and paste job
> from a posting I made earlier on the OESF OZ/GPE forum
> as Koen told me that you guys don't check that board.
> Is this true?)

Well I think Koen is really the only one who checks it out. I myself am not to
keen about forums.

> no search function and GPE-minibrowser was nigh on
> useless as I couldn't access Yahoo! mail which is
> sometimes the only site I'll check. I would presume
> from that that it also cannot handle Hotmail and Gmail
> either yet?

The problem lies in the cookie handling of gtk-webcore. ATM cookies are
required for all those webservices so they don't work/
 
> I was speaking to Florian about this and he said no
> work had been done on the minibrowser recently. I'm
> sure most will agree that e-mail is one of the primary
> uses of a computer/PDA for most people so I would say
> that getting this working should be a priority for the
> GPE team. Firefox is too memory intensive for PDAs.

Well I did some work on the back-end (gtk-webcore) which resulted in some
patches, like fixing the error handling. I also enabled cookies. Unfortunately
 the cookies only get parsed, but no information is exchanged decently. As I
have no clue how to make this work (as I do not know anything about cookie
handling) this has been suspended for the moment. I also have to admit I have
been quite non-active recently, but this will change probabely once winter
comes. I hope one day we can make it work, or that one of the other
khtml/webkit projects gets hooks to make it possible to use a more mature
rendering library for gpe-mini-browser.

Regards,

Philippe
 
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