On 2011-01-05, at 11:34, Max Carlson wrote:
> It's time to add a runtime for mobile devices. Since Webkit is the defacto
> mobile browser, it seems like we could benefit by stripping all the
> non-Webkit specific code out of the LFC. I wanted to send out a proposal for
> how we plan to do this to see if anyone has suggestions!
>
> First, Tucker will add a separate 'mobile' LFC build. This will use the
> existing DHTML LFC build, but will also set a new compile time constant
> ($mobile) to true.
>
> Next, I'll take the existing DHTML LFC and add if (! $mobile) {...} blocks
> around the bits of the kernel that don't apply to Webkit browsers. This will
> take advantage of André's recent (awesome) work to improve the compile-time
> constant evaluator. Ideally, I wouldn't have to do this - the compiler would
> be able to take a table of 'quirks' set for Webkit and automatically drop out
> the if (quirks.foo) { ... } blocks.
I wonder how hard it would be to add something like this to the compiler:
#evalwhen (compile, load) {
quirks = [];
}
if ($mobile) {
#evalwhen (compile, load) {
quirks.foo = true;
quirks.bar = false;
...
}
}
And have the compile-time constant evaluator understand:
if (quirks.foo) ...
?
[see: http://bit.ly/hcunZK]
> Finally, Henry will remove the 'swf8' radio button on the developer's console
> in favor of a new 'mobile' one.
