Web (aka Epiphany) 3.8 Roadmap!

Another development cycle is beginning for Web, another roadmap towards to 3.8 is constructed and for one more time promising features and ideas are on the table. To believe that Web will complete this roadmap is like to believe that a Fedora release will not be delayed :)

However some things will certainly arrive in 3.8 like the WebKit2 port, some visual updates and we might finally see a App Store (Google’s one).

WebKit2 port is working (I’ve tried it!) so it will be definitely ready on 3.8. User Interface is still under design but is the main goal for the next release so I guess that it will also definitely come -at least some parts of it.

What is more exciting (and with uncertain future) is the support for Chrome and Firefox apps. Igalia’s hacker Jose Dapena Paz has made (in the past) some work.

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Do you think this is exciting? Well, there are some more optimistic ideas like an Epiphany Data Sync.

Epiphany 3.8 Roadmap

Overview
	Allow restoring items in the overview	Needs design
	Favorites/Bookmarks section of the Overview	Not started
	Queue/Read later section of the Overview	Not started
	Allow smart relayouting/resizing of the overview when the window is downsized	Not started
	Allow pinning items to fixed locations in the overview	Not started
User Interface
	Create page properties dialog to hold advanced information about the page	Needs design
	Merge ‘Preferences’ and ‘Personal data’	Needs design
	Popup blocking	Needs design
	Error reporting	Needs design
	Make ephy an OpenSearch client	Not started
Downloads
	Download manager does not notify when disk is full	In progress - DiegoEscalanteUrrelo
	Epiphany doesn’t warn about permissions problems with download folder	In progress - DiegoEscalanteUrrelo
	No feedback when there’s no suitable application to open a download	In progress - DiegoEscalanteUrrelo
	“Open” in download-widget should say what will it use to Open the file	Needs design
	Downloads-bar needs visual cue when it appears	Needs design
	Downloads bar needs to handle many downloads better	Needs design
	Don’t open empty window for target=”_blank” downloads	In progress - DiegoEscalanteUrrelo
Backend
	WebKit2 port	In progress - CarlosGarciaCampos
	Add support for Google Chrome Web Store hosted apps	In progress - JoseDapenaPaz
	Add support for Mozilla OpenWebApps	In progress - JoseDapenaPaz
	Add support for Google Chrome CRX-less web apps	In progress - JoseDapenaPaz
	Getting rid of EphyNode	Not started
WebKit2
	There can be two widgets for the same download	In progress - CarlosGarciaCampos
	Port context menu	In progress - CarlosGarciaCampos
	Port button press actions	In progress - CarlosGarciaCampos
	Port favicons	In progress - MarioSanchezPrada
	Remembering passwords not available for auth dialog	Not started
	Issues with notify::uri and anchor links	In progress - CarlosGarciaCampos
	Make smooth scrolling optional	Not started
	User style sheet support	Not started
	Unsubmitted modified forms warning	Not started
	Pre-filled forms	Not started
	Embedded view source	Not started
	User agent	In progress - CarlosGarciaCampos
	DNS prefetching	Not started
	Delete web apps	In progress - CarlosGarciaCampos
Unit testing
	Raise coverage to over 50% ?	Not started

Epiphany 3.8 Roadmap in Gnome Live!

Although there is Chromium (and the dozens of the forks) and Firefox (which also has lots of forks), there is still a place (and a need) for the Gnome browser. Chromium quality has been reduced a lot in the last year in Linux (many crashes, huge RAM consumption) and I am thinking to switch back to Firefox which I left because it was slow, much slower than Chromium.

Web on the other hand is fast and lightweight, but it lacks of extensions and it has not syncing service, so it can’t be much useful at its present shape.

It is really hard to predict the future of Web. We just can hope we will see a better Web in 6months :)

Web Design in Gnome Live!