On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri < barbi...@profusion.mobi> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Anders Carlsson <ander...@apple.com> > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > This is a heads-up that we will shortly start landing patches for a new > > WebKit framework that we at Apple have been working on for a while. We > > currently call this new framework "WebKit2". > > > > WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process model, > > where the web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) lives in a separate > > process. This model is similar to what Google Chrome offers, with the > major > > difference being that we have built the process split model directly into > > the framework, allowing other clients to use it. > > > > Some high-level documentation is available > > at http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2 > > > > Currently WebKit2 is available for Mac and Windows, and we would gladly > > accept patches to add more ports. > > > > We're more than happy to answer any questions you might have, and we hope > > that this will be a topic of discussion at the WebKit Contributors > Meeting. > > Please, please consider making every call non-block, particularly > those that requires interaction with user, avoiding nested main loops > and bugs that come from these[1]. For instance, these could call user > that is later responsible to call another function, providing the > continuation based on some shared token/context. > > As noted in the linked Wiki document, the intent is to create a completely non-blocking API. That is one of our biggest motivations in pursuing this project. - Sam
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