Hey all,

I'm (slowly) working on porting Geary to WebKit2.

One of the things that needs to be taken care of is how Geary does manipulates an HTML email's markup before loading it into a WebView. This is done for a few reasons: Applying app-specific and user-specific CSS, to implement collapsible quote sections, for handling loading of inline and attached images, and to ensure that bulk and junk messages containing bugged remote images, etc. aren't automatically triggered.

I can parse, manipulate and re-serialise the HTML in the in the app before shipping it off to WebKit, but it would be nice to be able take advantage of WK's excellent parser instead. Is loading the HTML in a WebView and manipulating it from there using a WebExtension the only way to achieve this? I couldn't see anything like the DOM Load/Save APIs being documented as implemented. Is it possible to get a "background" WebKitWebPage for doing this without having the web view visibly change as the DOM is modified, then hand-ball the modified DOM over to a visible page for display?

For intercepting resource loads, connecting to WebKitWebPage::send-request and/or registering a handler with webkit_web_context_register_uri_scheme() looks like the way to go - I assume that one or the other will allow intercepting and cancelling loads of all remote resources at load-time, including images, CSS and JS, but how secure are they? Will a DNS lookup be performed for resources with remote URIs before asking for load permission?

Cheers,
//Mike

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⊨ Michael Gratton, Percept Wrangler.
⚙ <http://mjog.vee.net/>


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