Leaving the webbrowser-app task open as the webapp container is currently built with QtWebKit support (for web applications that still use version 1.0 of the policy). Once those applications are updated to use version 1.1 of the policy, we can remove QtWebKit support, and a lot of conditional code with it.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ubuntu-touch-meta in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1362640 Title: Remove qtwebkit from touch image Status in the base for Ubuntu mobile products: Confirmed Status in Web Browser App: Triaged Status in ubuntu-touch-meta package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: The argument to remove this is based on the following: The qtwebkit webview is deprecated for our sdk and we will not be supporting it long term We are supporting an Oxide/Chromium solution for the Ubuntu.Webview This was done largely for security reasons The qtwebkit package is large and we would like to reduce image and install size We want to discourage app devs from using this api any longer, the review tools have indicated this for several months To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1362640/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
