[webkit-dev] Pleyo unveils OWB, its refactor of WebKit
Dear Webkitters, Pleyo, by my voice and others such as Max or Sebastien, has been talking here now and then about the future outcome of its own refactored version of WebKit, based on a specific Abstraction Layer that we believe would help make portage to embedded platforms easier. We are finally ready to show you the very first iteration. It's based on the rev. 19826 of WebKit, code named Robespierre as the french revolutionnary hero :) Since we are not willing to head to a fork, we hope that some (not to say more...) of our changes will eventually go back to WebKit trunk, while we will keep merging from WebKit ToT on a regular basis. So expect to see some patchs arrive in the following weeks, Maxime already started sending some and more pleyo folks do the same in a near future... The website is not really finalized but we couldn't wait to get some feedback on our work. We will add more details on legal, extensions and technical architecture later. Best regards Jean-Charles -- Jean-Charles Verdié www.pleyo.com Pleyo, CTO mobile: +33 (0)6 282 616 05 skype: jcverdie ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] Pleyo unveils OWB, its refactor of WebKit
On Jul 20, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Jean-Charles VERDIE (Pleyo) wrote: Dear Webkitters, Pleyo, by my voice and others such as Max or Sebastien, has been talking here now and then about the future outcome of its own refactored version of WebKit, based on a specific Abstraction Layer that we believe would help make portage to embedded platforms easier. We are finally ready to show you the very first iteration. It's based on the rev. 19826 of WebKit, code named Robespierre as the french revolutionnary hero :) Since we are not willing to head to a fork, we hope that some (not to say more...) of our changes will eventually go back to WebKit trunk, while we will keep merging from WebKit ToT on a regular basis. So expect to see some patchs arrive in the following weeks, Maxime already started sending some and more pleyo folks do the same in a near future... The website is not really finalized but we couldn't wait to get some feedback on our work. We will add more details on legal, extensions and technical architecture later. Congratulations on your unveiling! I'm interested to hear about the changes to you made to get WebKit working on your platform(s), and I'm very glad that you're going to be sending patches back to the WebKit project (perhaps eventually your work can even happen in the main WebKit Subversion repository). Please keep us updated! -Adam ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
Re: [webkit-dev] Pleyo unveils OWB, its refactor of WebKit
2007/7/20, Adam Roben [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Congratulations on your unveiling! I'm interested to hear about the changes to you made to get WebKit working on your platform(s), and I'm very glad that you're going to be sending patches back to the WebKit project (perhaps eventually your work can even happen in the main WebKit Subversion repository). Please keep us updated! -Adam Hi, Thanks a lot. I'm pleased to sum up some of our ideas. We aim at small platforms. We started with the Linux port, but we focused on librairies and not on the OS or the toolkit used (one may change only the network engine, the graphics engine, etc.) First we wanted to keep the WebCore's code as is, obviously. So, we worked mainly in the platform directory and we made a similar abstraction layer we named BAL by making some more dirs (Interfaces, Implementations) and changing some classes to pure virtual classes :) to avoid as much as we can plaform independant (ifdefs, etc.). We started a document at http://www.sand-labs.org/OWBAL_doc/BalOverview.html. We use CMake intensively to make our librairies configuration. It compiles also on MacPort, and Maxime has tested with success the Xcode generator. We started to implement some unit testing (testBAL binary). We're still working on the DRT and its layout tests (but we still have no real plan concerning specific Mac rendering differences). We also document our code with doxygen tags and we wrote a porting guide ( http://www.sand-labs.org/owb/wiki/OwbalPortingGuide). I'd better stop now. If you have any comments, you're welcome. We also have a mailing list for off topic comments :). Seb. ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev -- a question for you : www.pleyo.com ___ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-dev
