[webkit-gtk] webkitgtk-1.8.x and Java/Flash plugins

[Daniel Drake]

Hi,

I'm running webkitgtk-1.8.1 on Fedora 17. I have both the GTK2 and
GTK3 versions installed.

In Epiphany, which is GTK3, Flash (Adobe) and Java (icedtea-web) don't work :(

I downloaded the webkitgtk-1.8.1 source code, and then I compiled the
GtkLauncher demo.

First I tried with gtk3:

# gcc main.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-3.0 webkitgtk-3.0)
# ./a.out
Java and Flash do not work here. Java applets comes up as a "?", flash
appears as a blank space. Tested with:

http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/info/en/help/requirements/flash.html
http://www.java.com/es/download/testjava.jsp

Now I try the GTK2 version.
# gcc -DGTK_API_VERSION_2 main.c $(pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0
webkit-1.0)
# ./a.out

Flash and Java now work!


Is this because flash and java plugins link against GTK2, which
obviously won't work under a GTK3 environment?
I know there has been work to split the plugins into another process,
but is this available in webkitgtk-1.8.0, or is it only for v1.9.0 and
newer?

I tried using Sun's java plugin loosely following the instructions here:
http://www.freetechie.com/blog/installing-sun-java-on-fedora-12/
It works on both GTK2 and GTK3 GtkLauncher. The plugin doesn't link
against any version of GTK.

Thanks,
Daniel