On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Darin Adler <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 20, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Darin Adler wrote: >> On Mar 20, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Adam Barth wrote: >> >>> When implemented by the embedder, the SearchBox API can't really make use >>> of all the event-related machinery in WebCore. >> >> Lets see if we can export a clean way to do that. It may be too late for >> SearchBox, but perhaps not for future similar things browsers want to expose. > > We should start by figuring out what machinery is unavailable. For example, I > think browsers can create a custom event and send it, but maybe it’s hard to > add properties to that event? > > It may turn out that your premise—that we need to build browser features into > WebCore because otherwise we’ll implement something low-quality—is correct, > but I’m not yet convinced.
For events in particular, there's a bunch of code in WebCore that interacts with EventTarget objects (including the implementation of EventTarget itself). It's not clear to me how the embedder can supply a new subclass of EventTarget that interacts properly with this machinery. Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
