On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Mark Toller <mark.tol...@samsung.com>wrote:
> ** > > I'd like to ask the Webkit developers their opinion on providing some > support for HbbTV [1] within Webkit. > By "some support", what exactly do you mean? Our lab, Samsung Electronics Research Institute (SERI), has been heavily > involved in HbbTV and our current solution is based on Webkit. We would > like to provide our changes back to the community.**** > > I know that support requests for CE-HTML have been briefly touched upon in > the past. As I understand it, the main objection to providing support > within WebKit is that the CE-HTML specification is not freely available, > and thus restricts the number of developers who can fully understand it and > therefore provide fixes / support.**** > > ** > It also burdens other contributors who refactor and maintain that code. WML was a mess and imposed a significant maintenance cost on everyone who worked on script and input elements. In reality, much of the CE-HTML specification simply profiles which parts > of the W3C standard behaviour are mandatory, optional and/or recommended. > OIPF then profiles CE-HTML (dropping some requirements, extending others to > match W3C/HTML5), HbbTV profiles out even more of CE-HTML. **** > > ** ** > > Other parts of OIPF and CE-HTML do not need to be implemented within > Webkit itself. Some can be implemented as object plugins (e.g. AV Control > and local video), while others, such as the JavaScript classes required, > can be inserted into the JavaScriptCore at runtime. > I have a hard time understanding the exact requirement for supporting CE-HTML and HbbTV. What kind of changes do you want to make to the trunk WebKit? What I propose is to provide the basic support required within Webkit in > order to at least load the XHTML portions of HbbTV applications and provide > the correct key handling to drive them. In order to provide 'full' HbbTV > support, implementations would need to provide the plugins and additional > JavaScript classes to complete the picture. > Making WebKit more pluggable to support CE-HTML and HbbTV sound good to me as long as it doesn't significantly increase the maintenance burden on contributors. - Ryosuke
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