Upgrading to WebKit2 (GTK) and WKWebView (Cocoa)

Specification

• Platform: Fedora
• Version: 27

Description

I was wondering if you are going to move to WebKit2 and deprecate WebKit1. I’ve been trying to develop a Python/Gtk application and keep seeing warnings about WebKit security. Such as; https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2016/02/01/on-webkit-security-updates/

In my application I’m using a try/except to test the version like this; ` import gi try: gi.require_version(‘Gtk’, ‘3.0’) from gi.repository import Gtk, Gdk # , Gio except: sys.exit(“This script requires Gtk 3.0 or newer!”)

try: gi.require_version(‘WebKit2’, ‘4.0’) from gi.repository import WebKit2 except: sys.exit(“This script requires WebKit2 4.0 or newer!”) ` As a side note, I’m having a difficult time learning how to use WebKit. Searching for answers is what led me to pywebview. Also, I tried to find a way to label this as label:“help wanted”, but I can’t see how to apply a label, sorry.

[r0x0r]

I don’t really do any development in the summer, so I will probably be able to give it a go sometime in the fall. On that note, be the change you want to see in the world.

[r0x0r]

Made some progress with tests. The culprit seems to be multiprocessing nature of the test runner. Namely, this barebone example renders an empty window and never loads a url on macOS.

from multiprocessing import Process

def _create_window():
    import webview
    webview.create_window('Simple browser', 'http://pywebview.flowrl.com')


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # Create a standard webview window
    p = Process(target=_create_window)
    p.start()
    p.join()