Hi,
do you think it would be possible to compile Webkit for iOS 5? I can't speak for Webkit here, but Opera Mini (the only browser remotely working on iOS 5 due to deprecated SSL certificates in Webkit and every browser using this engine) is relatively snappy.
Well, I've got no idea at all. I bet it would take many months to get anything to even launch at all.
Supposing that WebKitView would build with the present patches for --ios-device, the main point here would be porting the user interface, a task virtually identical in scope to the patching of the Leopard/Snow Leopard interfaces into the WebKit source code?
Last edit: yutzhead 2022-08-14
Well, no idea about the API the Safari IOS app uses for interfacing with the WebKit frameworks.
For Leopard I "only" needed to maintain the classic WebKit Objective-C API compatible with the Safari application - no WebKit2 APIs fortunately. There were rather few point where I had to do something user interface related, since the user interface is almost entirely provided by the application which uses the WebKit API for rendering web pages.