On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 5:02 PM, Matthew Watson <[email protected]>
wrote:
Thanks! This looks like a WebKit1 solution right?
Correct. I had assumed that it'd be easy to move to WebKit2, but I
didn't know about this:
We were looking for a way to do this with WebKit2, which gets a lot
trickier because webkit handles all scrolling internally
Bummer!
Another approach that I toyed with in Geary was to increase the height
of the webview until it required no scrolling. This could be put in a
Gtk.Layout or similar, which would handle scrolling. Unfortunately,
this fails if your HTML content ever decreases in height. I could find
no way (short of polling) to find out when this happens and adjust the
webview's size. Maybe this isn't a concern for you.
Of course, you need to access the DOM to find the content height, and...
and you can't access the dom without registering a plugin inside the
WebProcess.
This may not be quite as bad as you're imagining it, at least if you're
developing new code. Michael Catanzaro and I put together a
demonstration of communicating with a plugin in the web process over
DBus [1]. But as you say, trying to synchronize scrolling between two
processes is a scary proposition.
Good luck,
Robert
[1] https://github.com/rschroll/webkitdom/tree/extension
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