On Tuesday 28 October 2008 20:04:06 Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Hello there, > > For some time now I've been worried by the lack of progress of > WebKit/GTK+ where API is concerned. I am aware that loads of work have > been going into improving the engine backends and frontends, including > many bug fixes, but real-world adoption for many applications is > hindered by lack of features being accessible through a public API. > > While using Epiphany/Devhelp/Liferea, for instance, which already have > semi-functional WebKit/GTK+ ports one isn't able to middle-click links > to open them in new tabs, which is the kind of feature a user would > quickly perceive as basic, and missing. Some other features are > currently being implemented by hacks (mis-)using the already exposed > API, or the JavaScriptCore API.
The other part is, it is really hard to judge what is Gtk'ish. E.g. our current settings API is using GObject properties. Now we have a patch to add a thousand getters and setters as shortcut[1]. I think this is weird, e.g. one setter/getter and enum would be enough, or even the gobject properites are good enough... so some sort of API feedback of key people would be good. [1] https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=24541&action=edit _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
