I'm in the process of adding a mock client for DeviceOrientation, which will be used in DumpRenderTree to test the feature. In order to share the mock across platforms, I'd like to add the mock to WebCore/platform/mock. An interface to the mock will have to be exposed to the embedder through the platform's WebKit API, so that it can be configured by DRT, eg ... mWebView.getDeviceOrientationClientMock().setOrientation(...); To avoid each platform having to produce it's own WebKit wrapper for the mock, I'm considering adding a common WebKit wrapper, perhaps to WebKit/common, and I wanted to get some feedback on the idea. The mock would be shared between all C++ WebKit platforms. (Note that this is for convenience only, a platform could equally use it's own WebKit wrapper around the WebCore mock (eg Mac may do so in ObjectiveC), or use its own mock altogether.) Of course we also need WebKit wrappers for all of the non-POD types used by the mock's interface, and these have to be common between all platforms. One obvious potential difficulty is the wrapper for WebCore::String. Each platforms already has a wrapper for this type, but there's no guarantee of interoperability, so we'd need to write a new common interface if we're to use the string type. If a wrapper for string ends up being too problematic, the approach could still be used for mocks that don't need the string type (of which DeviceOrientation is one), but the approach then seems less compelling. Do people think that this is a reasonable proposal and worth pursuing? Has there been any attempt to do anything similar before? Or is any attempt to write this kind of common WebKit code not worth the effort and destined to failure? You can see the work in progress for DeviceOrientation at https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39589 and a similar patch for SpeechInput mocks at https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42603 I'd appreciate any feedback you may have. Thanks, Steve -- Google UK Limited Registered Office: Belgrave House, 76 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9TQ Registered in England Number: 3977902