On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Adam Barth <abarth@webkit.org> wrote:

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:54 AM, Joe Mason<joe.mason@torchmobile.com> wrote:
> Adam Barth wrote:
>>
>> This is now up on the site:
>>
>> http://webkit.org/coding/major-objects.html
>>
>> It's not linked from anywhere yet. It might be a good idea for a
>> couple of folks to look at it. It reflects my understanding of how
>> things work, which might well be wrong.
>
> "NULL after navigation" could be clearer - it suggests that DOMWindow and
> everything below it only exists if you type the URL, but not if a page is
> loaded by clicking a link, which can't be true.

Oh, I meant navigate to cover both typing in the location bar and
clicking a link. Is there a better word to use for that?

> Does it mean that it's NULL
> immediately after navigation, while waiting for the load, and is replaced by
> a valid pointer after loading?

I wasn't sure the best way to represent this in the diagram.
Typically, the edge becomes null in the "up" direction and replaced
with a new object in the "down" direction. If you can think of a nice
way to explain this on the page, please file a bug, CC me, and upload
a patch. :)

Adam

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