On Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 1:37 PM Elad Alfassa <elad@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

On Sat, Jan 24, 2015 at 1:46 AM, Liam <liam.bulkley@gmail.com> wrote:

Has anyone actually tried installing devdocs from gnome software? When I tried, it did install, but wouldn't function as the webview doesn't support indexdb.
Ithen went to the Mozilla marketplace and installed their devdocs app and that worked perfectly (it even installed a .desktop file).
Is there any reason why we aren't attempting to use their marketplace as an app provider? That they don't employ appstream might be an issue:)



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Just tried devdocs and it seems to work as

intended.



No, I don't think it does. They use indexdb so you can store the docs offline. As Michael said, this feature only just landed in, I guess, webkit2-gtk (or whatever it's called).

My question remains, however: why not make use of the Mozilla marketplace? The installed app even shows up as properly installed in Software (only a 1\2 star rating, which., iirc, only indicates how much of the appstream metadata the package included).
Mozilla seems like the kind of organization Fedora should have a closer relationship with, and I don't see the need to duplicate their efforts. Additionally, in the not very distant future, we're going to want to take a careful look at the servo as a replacement to webkit2 since they are supporting the chromium embedding framework, and their radically advanced architecture.