WebKitGTK+ 2.18+ use WebKit2 API [1] WebKit1 API is deprecated and was removed from Fedora 27 , the main argument is that WebKit1 have many security issues that wasn't fixed and also won't be fixed .
Thanks
As you note, the API is different and somebodys got to convert it, pull requests are welcome.
the main argument is that WebKit1 have many security issues that wasn't fixed and also won't be fixed
Seeing as the Markdown preview isn't a general purpose browser but meant only to display local dynamically-generated text from memory (although in theory it can display remote Internet content), I don't see this as such a big deal.
https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins/pull/656
Closed #655.
Fixed in 4039a13882f4b9e2127f6e7b018bdbdffe36e2a2
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