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how tightly coupled is JavaScriptCore to WebKit?
by Brett Cannon 01 Aug '06

01 Aug '06

My name is Brett Cannon and I am currently a Ph.D. student attending the University of British Columbia. I am starting work on a dissertation that involves making the Python programming language secure and using the use of Python as a client-side web scripting language as the case-study. I was originally planning on using Firefox as the browser to embed into, but then I remembered that WebKit was an option for me. But I have no clue how difficult it would be to add another client-side scripting language to WebKit. Does anyone know how difficult this would be? Is most stuff so completely geared towards JavaScript that adding another language would be a huge undertaking? Or is the abstraction at the right level that this would be feasible with a modest amount of work? Thanks for any help. -Brett C.

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XML id attribute
by Mike Emmel 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

I've notices that id is defined in HTMLAttributeNames.in Should it not be in xml/xmlattrs.in because of this ? http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/

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Greetings
by Rob Burns 30 Jul '06

30 Jul '06

Hello All, Not sure how active this list is, but I thought I'd introduce myself. I've been browsing the WebKit website, downloading the latest build and just checked out the source from the subversion repository. It's a lot to wade through, but I hope to be able to contribute something. There are a few technologies that I'm particularly interested in, that show no mention on the website, and so I thought I'd ask for some information and opinions here. The two omissions that most interest me are: XForms (I submitted a bug) and CSS paged media. I've been running some tests on Safari and some other browsers on these specifications and apparently the supporst not there. However, I'm wondering what the views of those most active in this project. I see mention of WHAT WG and I'm not really sure how they play into the XForms issue. From the reading I did on their website, they seem to want to alter user-agents to bring XForms functionality to the old HTML forms specification. If both the user-agents and the web app developers will need to change to support the WebForms 2.0, then what's the advantage over directly embracing XForms? XForms: I'm not sure where to start on this, but XForms relies significantly on XPath, which I've seen mentioned at WebKit's bugzilla. With XPath in place the binding of controls to a model should be pretty straight forward to add. Also the XForms controls do not add anything that Safari doesn't already render: just the elements have different names and work slightly differently. Paged Media and the @Page Directive: Is anyone else working on paged media? This is something I'd be interested in taking advantage of, but fear I don't have the know-how to contribute anything worthwhile to this endeavor. The last issue I'm interested in is editing XHTML. I''m working on an editing app based on WebKit and, to my surprise WebKit doesn't appear to support editing of XHTML. I thought it would just work. I might be missing something, but from what I can tell WebView loads the file (passed as NSString) then just lops off the DTD declaration and turns all the tag names into upper-case. That's with the latest version of WebKit delivered by Apple. I haven't tested the latest version from the repository. Since Safari does such an excellent job of handling XHTML, I had thought the web editing functionality would do just as well. I was hoping to even add elements from another namespace and be able to use CSS selectors to style them. Which brings me to another issue. Where would I look to see how WebKit handles the various elements and CSS selectors. It strikes me that WebKit need not be familliar with a particular element to at least position the box for the element and allow CSS properties to style it.Obviously, for certain elements this would do now good (e.g., a MathML element for integral), but for a wide assortment of elements, this would be a versatile and flexible approach to handling unknown elements. In other words internally handle any element as a span or div, but then set the default CSS is display:none. I welcome any comments, pointers, or recommendations. Thanks. Take care, Rob

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which version of Cairo?
by schmindor 28 Jul '06

28 Jul '06

> > which version of the Cairo library do I need for the linux builds?

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Is this true
by Mike Emmel 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/06/07/25/2250220.shtml Is opendarwin shutting down and if so where is webkit moving ? Mike

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ask your help
by ext-guodong.xue＠nokia.com 26 Jul '06

26 Jul '06

hi, we are employees working for nokia in Nokia NRC Beijing.we met some problems in our work recently,and morrison Bradely told us that we may probably find the answer here from you. we are working at an application which based on the web browser,we need the location and control of the cursor ,and then we can realize the moving of the cursor using camera instead of the keyboad of mobile phone. In the application,we just need the feature of a launchable browser,the features such as visual history and minimap are not in the scope of our needs. what bothering us is that if it is feasible to fullfill the application based on Webkit,furthor more,if yes,how can we get the location and control of the cursor,if not,can you give us some advice about it? thanks in advance! Best Regards. Xue guodong

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Linux build patch
by Mike Emmel 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

My intial patch for linux is up now on http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10096 So if you apply it should Just Work tm :)

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Status of Linux port?
by Krzysztof Kowalczyk 25 Jul '06

25 Jul '06

I was wondering what is the status of linux port. I saw that Mike Emmel and others did a bunch of work on that and http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8515 implies that things are working well enough to build a full, simple browser on gtk. However, I just tried to build the latest sources from svn but regenerate-makefiles fails for me with: /Projects/gdk/webcore-gdk.bkl:47: error: unknown target tag 'pre-build-target' when processing target at /Projects/gdk/webcore-gdk.bkl:40 My knowledge of bakefiles is non-existing so I was wondering if anyone has a working Linux/Gtk build working and that's something that only happens on my machine or is it just broken for everyone. I'm using ubuntu 6.06 and the latest stable bakefile 0.2.0 released on 2006-02-05 (if that matters). Thanks, -- kjk

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Bugzilla vs bugreport.apple.com
by James Ashley 21 Jul '06

21 Jul '06

Hello, everyone. I'm brand new to the list and WebKit development (I only found out last week that it's open source). Our company's web site exposes what looks like a regression bug with webkit version 418.8. I haven't seen the bug listed anywhere else (although it might be fixed by now...I really need to get a Mac development environment set up so I can try it). I filed this at bugreport.apple.com. Anyway, after filing, I I found opendarwin.org, and I realized that I should probably have filed the bug here on bugzilla. Should I file a duplicate bug report in bugzilla? File here and close the first one I opened? Or just leave it as-is? Thanks, James

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HTMLCollection.idl ?
by Mike Emmel 19 Jul '06

19 Jul '06

Should there be a HTMLCollection.idl In HTMLOptionsCollection.idl We have interface [LegacyParent=KJS::JSHTMLCollection, HasCustomIndexSetter] HTMLOpt But there is no idl file to generate JSHTMLCollection and so I can't compile.

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