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Is the S60 WebKit port dead?

2008-04-11 · mobile, browsers

UPDATE: See full comments at end from Bradley Morrison and Mark Baker. Excerpted:

Bradley: “No, it doesn’t mean that at all :) Please don’t read into my message on the WebKit mailing list - I was just cleaning up some stale bugs in the WebKit bug database… Nothing more, nothing less!”

Mark: My information is that a new S60 port based off a much more recent branch will be realeased in the next couple of months.

And here’s my original posting that Bradley and Mark were responding to:

A message from Eric Seidel yesterday on the webkit-dev mailing list notes that:

There has not been a checkin to the S60 port in over 8 months… As far as I can tell, the port is dead… Does anyone know the status of the port? If the port is in fact dead, I would like to suggest that we tag (with some keyword, or component) all of the remaining S60 bugs and close them.

Bradley Morrison from Nokia, while noting that “I don’t work on the project myself”, then replies to say:

I’ve just tagged with a keyword & closed (to INVALID) all s60 bugs.

Does this mean that the S60 WebKit port is in fact dead?

6 Responses to “Is the S60 WebKit port dead?”

  1. What’s happening with the S60 browser? Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 8:55 pm

    […] I just caught a post in my reader, which is a bit alarming and rather disappointing if true. There has not been a checkin to the S60 port in over 8 months… As far as I can tell, the port is dead… Does anyone know the status of the port? If the port is in fact dead, I would like to suggest that we tag (with some keyword, or component) all of the remaining S60 bugs and close them. […]

  2. Martin Hassman Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 9:57 pm

    Strange, blog http://blogs.s60.com/browser/ looks alive.

  3. Bradley Morrison Says:
    April 12th, 2008 at 12:10 am

    Hi Mike,

    No, it doesn’t mean that at all :) Please don’t read into my message on the WebKit mailing list - I was just cleaning up some stale bugs in the WebKit bug database because, as Eric said, “it’s important to actively close inactive bugs to best maintain the health of the bug database”. Nothing more, nothing less!

    Cheers,
    Bradley

  4. Mark Baker Says:
    April 12th, 2008 at 3:53 am

    My information is that a new S60 port based off a much more recent branch will be realeased in the next couple of months.

  5. Nekodaddy Says:
    April 12th, 2008 at 5:50 am

    Palm dead :-( Symbian dying… Next Android? or iPhone?
    My cat ate my Nokia’s headset(4set!) lol.

  6. Martin Hassman Says:
    April 15th, 2008 at 8:57 pm

    See the response http://blogs.s60.com/browser/2008/04/whoa_there.html