On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Benjamin Otte <[email protected]> wrote: > This whole notion of async API is really ugly, I'd try very hard to > avoid it at all costs. In fact, it's so bad that people do sync IO > everywhere and pray nobody notices. (Try looking at the GTK icon theme > code or the CSS theme loading or basically anything else inside GTK. > Or try looking at lots of DBUS-using code that calls functions with > return values. In particular AT-SPI...)
Drive-by clarification: keep in mind a lot of the API has to be asynchronous because of the process separation architecture in WebKit2. So even if a lot of the WebKit1 API might be easier to use depending on the specific case it might not be possible to replicate. Xan > > Benjamin > _______________________________________________ > webkit-gtk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-gtk > _______________________________________________ webkit-gtk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-gtk
