On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Eric Seidel <e...@webkit.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Jeremy Orlow <jor...@chromium.org> wrote: >> Why wasn't it done that way originally? That sounds (to my uneducated ear) >> much better than what's done today. > > The world was very different back then. :) > > - WebKit was only on one platform (Mac). > - Much of what is now WebCore, was up in WebKit. > - (As Adam also mentions) LayoutTestController was initially more > about faking click events, etc. > > A lot has changed in 6, 7, 8.. whatever it is now... years. > > I agree, I think that a better modern solution would be to move huge > chunks of DRT into WebCore itself, and have them compiled in Debug and > Release builds and removed from Production builds (controlled by some > flag). > > WebKit ports would just pipe another method > "exposeTestObjectsToJavaScript" or similar up to the various DRT > ports. > > We could get rid of a huge amount of boiler-plate DRT code (much of > which deals with type conversions).
Mr. Seidel, we might have found our next project. Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
