[webkit-dev] Thoughts on reducing the complexity of WebCore

2011-05-15 Thread Adam Barth
One way to reduce the complexity of WebCore without reducing the number of features in WebKit is to separate out the parts of WebCore that aren't tightly coupled to DOM/CSS/Rendering into separate (static) libraries. Consider, for example, IndexdedDB and WebAudio. These APIs are part of the web pl

Re: [webkit-dev] JSC bindings in the Qt bridge

2011-05-15 Thread noam.rosenthal
On May 14, 2011, at 12:55 PM, ext Oliver Hunt wrote: A common problem the we're hitting when working on JSC is that the Qt bridge bindings are implemented in terms of JSC internals. This keeps causing us problems as no one working on JSC really knows anything about Qt or the API the bridge ob

Re: [webkit-dev] JSC bindings in the Qt bridge

2011-05-15 Thread Darin Adler
On May 15, 2011, at 3:33 AM, Benjamin Poulain wrote: >> If during the conversion people find any short comings in the JSC API that's >> useful too, as it's likely that those problems would impact other users of >> the JSC API and we would welcome bugs being filed on those them (CC'ing me >> :)

Re: [webkit-dev] JSC bindings in the Qt bridge

2011-05-15 Thread Benjamin Poulain
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Oliver Hunt wrote: > Given there seems to be little focus on these bindings from Nokia it seems > that the best path forward is to have them rewritten in terms of the JSC API > rather than the JSC internals. This will insulate the bindings from future > changes a