[release-notes/gnome-3-6] Shorten Web section, move WebKit2 port to 3.8 section
- From: Andre Klapper <aklapper src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [release-notes/gnome-3-6] Shorten Web section, move WebKit2 port to 3.8 section
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2012 12:05:50 +0000 (UTC)
commit 8af040edbf6ac4415c88b43a85dc544f56bc4272
Author: Andre Klapper <a9016009 gmx de>
Date: Sat Sep 15 14:05:37 2012 +0200
Shorten Web section, move WebKit2 port to 3.8 section
help/C/lookingforward-misc.page | 2 +-
help/C/users-web.page | 45 +++++++++-----------------------------
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/help/C/lookingforward-misc.page b/help/C/lookingforward-misc.page
index 23d7632..412fadb 100644
--- a/help/C/lookingforward-misc.page
+++ b/help/C/lookingforward-misc.page
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
</p></item>
<!-- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678610 -->
<item><p>
-GNOME's browser <app>Web</app> will be ported to <sys>WebKit2</sys>.
+GNOME's browser <app>Web</app> is being ported to <sys>WebKit2</sys>. If you want to give this work in progress a try, build the browser with <cmd>--with-webkit2</cmd>.
</p></item>
<item><p>
<app>Evolution</app> will use <sys>WebKit</sys> also for composing messages. This will deprecate <sys>GtkHtml</sys>.
diff --git a/help/C/users-web.page b/help/C/users-web.page
index 3f1682b..21d2962 100644
--- a/help/C/users-web.page
+++ b/help/C/users-web.page
@@ -29,26 +29,18 @@
<title>The Overview</title>
<p>
- The most noticeable difference in 3.6 is the first iteration of what we
- call âThe Overviewâ. This is still an evolving design and implementation,
- but we felt that it was important to land a first version in time for this
- release that brought actual, solid improvements to the user experience.
+ The most noticeable difference in 3.6 is the first version of
+ âThe Overviewâ. While this is still an evolving design,
+ it already is a solid improvement to the user experience.
</p>
<p>
- What the overview currently does is easy to explain: we have changed the
- blank start page for a grid that holds your most visited pages. Your
+ The previously blank start page was replaced by a grid that holds your
+ most visited pages. Your
favorite pages are now easier to access, especially on touch devices, and
- we have put valuable screen real estate to work! But what about if some
- unwanted visitor ends up there? Fear not, if you need to you can remove
- them from the grid by clicking on the <gui>X</gui> icon on the top right corner of
- each snapshot.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Thereâs more to come, but we feel this is already much better than it was,
- and fixes a long standing feature request for a better start page
- experience.
+ valuable screen real estate is used! And if an unwanted page
+ ends up there, you can remove it from the grid by clicking on the
+ <gui>X</gui> icon on the top right corner of each snapshot.
</p>
</section>
@@ -61,28 +53,13 @@
For a long time <app>Web</app>âs fullscreen mode was somewhat awkward. Youâd still
get a toolbar, so it wasnât really fullscreen, plus it would have a
strange button embedded in it telling you how to go back to the safety of
- the vanilla mode. Probably this was fine for the time, but with more and
+ the vanilla mode. With
more HTML5 games or presentations done inside browsers, it was about time
- we had way of making your browser show you the full content and nothing
- but the content. So we just did that:
+ to make your browser show you the full content and nothing
+ but the content. So we just did that.
</p>
</section>
- <section id="users-web-webkit2">
- <title>WebKit2, beta</title>
-
- <p>
- Itâs been a long time in the making, but the first bits of the
- <sys>WebKit2</sys>
- support are already in the master branch. As we had anticipated for now it
- is available in beta form, which means we donât build it by default and
- thereâs still some functionality missing. That being said, it is really
- usable at this point, and doing the actual porting has helped us a lot in
- maturing the up and coming next generation of the <sys>WebKit</sys> framework. If you
- are a developer and want to give it a shot, just build the browser with
- <cmd>--with-webkit2</cmd>, and youâll notice:
- </p>
-
<list>
<item><p>Increased responsiveness (how amazing the scrolling is!) and
stability.</p></item>
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