Hey Max, will you add Jira tasks for these issues, so they don't get lost?
On 2011-01-05, at 11:47, P T Withington wrote:
> 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.
>
>
