This is now up on the site: http://webkit.org/coding/major-objects.html
It's not linked from anywhere yet. It might be a good idea for a couple of folks to look at it. It reflects my understanding of how things work, which might well be wrong. Adam On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Adam Barth<[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, here's my lame attempt at ASCII art: > > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28210 > > Adam > > > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Maciej Stachowiak<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:03 PM, Adam Barth wrote: >> >>> In reviewing patches, I feel like I'm commonly pointing out >>> DOMWindow::frame and Document::frame, etc, can be null in some >>> circumstances. Would it be useful to have a diagram of the major >>> objects (Page, Frame, DOMWindow, Document, etc) somewhere on >>> webkit.org that shows their relation, which links can be null, and >>> which objects change / are preserved during navigation? >>> >>> If so, I'm happy to create this with my current knowledge, and >>> hopefully folks with more experience will add parts that I don't know. >>> What's the best medium to make this easy to update in the future? >>> SVG? ASCII art? >> >> It would be useful to make such a diagram. Also hard to make it accurate! >> I'd be happy to provide information and advice to anyone working on this. >> >> I'm not sure what format to use to capture the data. In the abstract, my >> preference would be a plain text file that could be transformed into >> diagrams in various chosen formats, but that depends on what kind of data we >> capture. >> >> Regards, >> Maciej >> >> > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
