Hi, It might be more realistic to try making an existing WebKit port work on Haiku (either WebKitGTK or WPE WebKit) rather than try to create an entirely new port. Previously you indicated that you were planning to create a new network backend for Haiku; that alone would be enough to occupy a developer full-time for a long while and doesn't seem very realistic. But that's just one small portion of developing and maintaining an entire WebKit port. Taking an existing port and making it run on Haiku would be much easier. On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 7:38 AM, Rajagopalan Gangadharan <g.raju2000@gmail.com> wrote:
What is a WKRetainPtr ? where can I use it?
It's a smart pointer for holding ownership of C API types, which you shouldn't be using. The C API is not stable and is slowly being retired. If you really don't want to use WebKitGTK or WPE WebKit, then you should create your own separate public API based on WebKit internals, not based on the C API. If you use the C API, your port will be difficult to maintain in the long run.
What is WKContext and WKView (I think Webview is different from WKView) -> as far my understanding is Context like the context menu an os offers (ie right clicking provides copy,paste etc.)
No, it's a library context object (corresponding to WebProcessPool). If you have two web contexts, you effectively have two separate instances of WebKit (e.g. separate NetworkProcess, separate data storage directories, separate everything) to avoid shared global state.
and View is where rendering takes place?
This is correct. Good luck, Michael