[webkit-dev] Re: AJAX Support

[Paul Everitt]

Hi Eric, thanks for the encouragement (and also, to Joost in private 
mail).  I dropped by the channel and indeed found several helpful people.

I spent a few hours today working on Kupu against a WebKit nightly.  I 
sent a status report to the Kupu list:

   http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.kupu.devel/1642

In summary, I plan to wait until this lands:

   http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4904

Kupu relies very, very heavily on Selection and Range support.  As the 
context changes, the buttons get updated, drop-down lists get new items, 
etc.  I'm eager to look at this more when the patch lands.

Again, thanks for the encouragement.

--Paul

Eric Seidel wrote:
> #webkit is not particularly active this week.  Apple has the entire week 
> off, and many WebKit hackers (apple or otherwise) are spending the 
> holiday away from their computers with their families :)
> 
> I would encourage you to try again on #webkit.  Particularly after Jan 
> 2nd, any time between 10AM and midnight PST, you should find lots of 
> webkit hackers on irc :)
> 
> -eric
> 
> On Dec 27, 2005, at 3:13 AM, Paul Everitt wrote:
> 
>> Joost de Valk wrote:
>>> Hi Andrew,
>>> On Dec 25, 2005, at 11:21 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>>>> 1.  Although Safari implements most of the XML Extras in FireFox, 
>>>>> as far as I can tell it lacks a critical piece of the AJAX 
>>>>> framework:  the ability to apply an XSLT transform to an XML 
>>>>> document received asynchronously from a server into HTML.  I 
>>>>> believe Safari supports .innerHTML on most tags (could be wrong), 
>>>>> so the transform process seems to be the only missing piece of the 
>>>>> puzzle in this regard.
>>>>
>>>> XSLTProcessor is available in the latest cvs version of WebKit, 
>>>> though not any released version of Safari yet. You might find it 
>>>> helpful for testing.
>>> i'd go even further: please test it, and file any bugs you may find 
>>> :) If you need help filing, contact us in #webkit on 
>>> irc.freenode.net, mail us here, or mail me personally, we / i will be 
>>> glad to be of assistance.
>>
>> I did that sequence and nothing happened.  I went on IRC, was told to 
>> file a bug, and did so (first finding that a similar bug was already 
>> reported):
>>
>>   http://bugzilla.opendarwin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5576
>>
>> This bug was first reported 2 months ago and hasn't gotten any 
>> response from the WebKit team.  Is it not filed correctly?
>>
>> I might have funding in the next couple of weeks to get the Kupu 
>> editor working in WebKit.  I don't mind filing bugs with good test 
>> cases, but I'd like some indication whether the bug reports will get 
>> noticed. [wink]
>>
>> --Paul
>>
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