jonwil: as you may know I was pretty active on #embedlite, there are a couple of my patches upstreamed to gecko etc. I was hoping that at some point I will be able to wrap upstream gecko Gtk embedlite implementation in what microb needs.

It turned out all the effort was because of jollaphone, they even dropped q4 support some time ago.

I assess your idea to simply forward port the patches in maemo's gecko to upstream as not feasible - not only the code has changed dramatically, but there is a crucial piece of it which is missing for maybe 3 or more years - GtkMozEmbed. This is what microb eal uses to embed gecko.

On the other hand we don't really need to replace microb, as it is just an UI. What needs to be done is - we get a recent engine, port it to maemo and implement this http://browser.garage.maemo.org/docs/eal/