The existing code is very confused. For example, it doesn't seem to know that RefCounted objects start with an initial ref. My guess is that it was written a long time ago and then was abandoned. As the project moved forward, this code got left behind.
Adam On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Dimitri Glazkov <dglaz...@chromium.org> wrote: > Hear hear. I am still very interesting in having something like XBL in > WebKit and am now to the point of having good chunk of time to work on > this. Having said that, I am not sure how much of the current > XBL-related code remains useful. If it's not, we might just as well > zap it and start with a clean slate. > > :DG< > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Dan Bernstein <m...@apple.com> wrote: >> >> On Aug 25, 2010, at 9:11 AM, Julien Chaffraix wrote: >> >>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBL , I guess? >>> >>> FYI XBL has been superseded by XBL 2.0 that is not backward compatible >>> with the first version [1]. Thus our code is just obsolete. >> >> All XBL-related code in WebKit is for XBL2. It seems as if WebKit had >> working XBL2 support, most of the form controls added over the last couple >> of years could have been defined declaratively in markup rather than >> requiring the significant amount of C++ code that they currently do. >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >> > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
