... and Amanda points me to the existing thread on this topic. I'll follow up there.
Avi (who just joined the list today) On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Avi Drissman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In WebKit, PLATFORM(MAC) means a lot of things, and one thing in particular > it means is to use NSURLResponse. I filed > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20890 with a patch, and it kicked > up a storm. > > It seemed like there was fundamental disagreement about what the meaning of > PLATFORM(MAC) really was. Did it mean "use Mac APIs"? Perhaps it's "Apple's > Mac port". > > I'll take my position, that PLATFORM(MAC) means that WebKit should use core > Mac APIs. Not ones that are replaceable (like NSURL, since we're replacing > that with our own loaders), but the core ones like Cocoa UI APIs, etc. > There's a fine line there; after all, anything's replaceable with enough > effort. That's fine; I'm happy with leaving most things as PLATFORM(MAC) and > then, if need be, split them off into USE(SOMEFEATURE). > > Avi >
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