El mié, 19-03-2014 a las 12:12 -0700, Niranjan Rao escribió: > One concern I have is webkit 2 does not have complete feature list of > webkit1 yet. For example in version 2, we can not access WebKitWebFrame > object. We were using it, but managed to find workarounds. I don't know > how many other applications actually use it.
We have a very simple WebKitFrame object in the web extensions API. File bug reports explaining the use cases and we'll add all the missing API. > Personally we have moved webkit2. It is little more cumbersome to use > than older version and added some interesting complications to life. > However in general, I am noticing it more faster and having more useful > features. When compared with previous version, we have also noticed > higher number of crashes in v2, but they will stabilize/get fixed over > the time. Most of the crashes are actually in JavaScriptCore, so it's common to wk1 and wk2. > Gtk annotations is also important for others so that languages like > python can use it. But this raises a very interesting problem. If python > like language needs DOM access, how do we do it? There are lot of tools > out there that depend upon DOM access and use Gtk annotations. That's a good point, we need to figure out a way to support web extensions written in other languages. > Regards, > > Niranjan > > On 03/19/2014 11:46 AM, Martin Robinson wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Carlos Garcia Campos > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Let's remove the code then. As I said people wanting to stay with > >> WebKit1 can use the latest release including WebKit1. > > It seems like a lot of people are in favor of removing the code now. > > We will continue to support WebKit1 for as long as we release the 2.4 > > branch (that may be 6 months or even a year). I think this is > > suitable, as it will still be possible to use WebKi1 for some time. If > > someone wants to continue maintaining WebKit1, they can submit patches > > against the 2.4 branch. Is anyone opposed to this? > > > > --Martin > > _______________________________________________ > > webkit-gtk mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-gtk > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-gtk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-gtk > -- Carlos Garcia Campos http://pgp.rediris.es:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xF3D322D0EC4582C3
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