On Sep 11, 2010, at 2:57 AM, Adam Barth wrote: > I don't mean to spam this list with design questions, but I'm trying > to wrap my mind around how the loader is put together today and how > we'd like it to be put together in the future. > > There's a FIXME in ResourceHandle that says that ResourceHandle > shouldn't depend on Frame. (For those who aren't familiar with the > loader, ResourceHandle is the primary platform abstraction WebCore > uses to communicate with the network.) This makes sense to me for two > reasons: > > 1) ResourceHandle is in WebCore/platform/network and therefore isn't > allowed to depend on parts of WebCore outside the platform directory. > 2) There are a number of types of network requests that are not > associated with frames (e.g., XMLHttpRequests from WebWorkers, > PingLoader, etc). > > Do we still believe this FIXME is accurate? If so, I have some time > next week to look at removing the dependency. There's a patch that > either recently landed or is about to land that furthers the use of > Frame by ResourceHandle, so I wanted to check with folks more broadly > about whether this is the right direction. (Note that I haven't > studied the code yet, so I'm not sure what would be required to remove > the dependency.)
I think this is the right way to go. I don't clearly understand the reasons this dependency was added, but I hope we can find an alternate design to meet those needs. Regards, Maciej _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
