[Booki-dev] objavi plans

[Douglas Bagnall]

Adam wrote:

> Particularly between Dave Hyatt and Hayato ito:
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39735
> 
> They seem to have given up on implementing page-break support and other
> paging issues until they have rewritten webkits paging code. Hayato did
> provide some patches that got part way there, and perhaps far enough for
> us, but they were rejected.


Yeah I have been following that, and various related bugs.  I think we
should try the Hayato patch in the meantime.  It can hardly be worse,
but if it is, we can just go back.


> You seem to be suggesting that you work on wkhtmltopdf to fix it.


It's not real work I hope.  There are other things I would like to do in
wkhtmltopdf, though, that would help objavi in other ways.

> Another option of course is to work with Robert OCallahan and fix the
> issues in Gecko as he and I discussed at the Moz Conf. 
> 
> What do you think is the best strategy here?


Wkhtmltopdf is the only option for improving things in the next few
weeks.  Gecko might be better in the long run (or not, it's hard to
know).  But if they are going to be helpful, that's good.  I'll try to
meet with Robert soon.

BTW, there's a bit of a discussion of Gecko here:

 

 http://www.mail-archive.com/dev-tech-layout@lists.mozilla.org/msg01869.html

> Also, Raj is on baby leave at the moment. I am cc'ing him just in case
> he is back and we can draw his attention.


This is actually doubly good news.  Good to have a baby Raj, and also
good for me to have a little bit of time to catch up with these other
things before thinking about epubs again.

Douglas