On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@smedbergs.us>wrote:

>  On 8/11/2012 8:14 AM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
>
> I think making the HWND message loop thread not be the main thread would
> be very hard. Drag and drop and IME for example require synchronous
> processing.
>
>  How does Chrome do this? I know for 99% certain that they do not block
> the root process which processes windows events on the content processes. I
> know that this is a big deal for a11y (which was one of the big problems
> facing e10s), but ISTM that D&D and IME are probably solved problems.
>

I don't think it's impossible, I just think it's very hard. I'd also be
very afraid of violating the assumptions of third-party code. Maybe I'm
wrong.

Rob
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