[webkit-dev] Win32: hitting the home stretch

[Mike Emmel]

On 7/8/06, Justin Haygood <jhaygood at spsu.edu> wrote:
> the existing Cairo port of KCanvas in the KDE tree might be a good place to
> look as well:
>
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/kdenonbeta/kcanvas/device/cairo/
>
>
I thought so at first but the WebKit one is significantly different.
I had expectations of coping the dir over and building :(
>
> On 7/8/06, Mike Emmel <mike.emmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/8/06, Justin Haygood <jhaygood at spsu.edu> wrote:
> > > Hello Everyone!
> > >
> > > The Windows ports of JavaScriptCore and WebCore are hitting the home
> stretch
> > > for anyone who wants to implement:
> > >
> > >
> > > JavaScriptCore:
> > >  1. The current Win32 collector implementation is MSVC x86 only (using
> > > inline assembly). This should be changed to a C/C++ implementation so
> that
> > > it will compile on x64 (and potentially) MinGW
> > > 2. Bindings is currently not implemented. This can be split up into 2
> basic
> > > components:
> > >
> > > All uses of CFDictionary need to be changed to HashMap. However, a const
> > > char * hashing algorithm that uses the string value instead of the
> pointer
> > > value needs to be implemented first.
> > > All uses of CFRuntime need to be ported over to a more cross platform
> > > method. CFRuntime is used for 2 different uses:
> > > threading
> > > callbacks WebCore:
> > > 1. Frames support. This will require work in both WebCore and WebKit
> > > (WebCore has to callback into WebKit for WebKit to create the native
> > > subwindow for WebCore)
> > >  2. HTML Canvas support. This will however require porting to the C++
> > > GraphicsContext API and for GraphicsContext to be more complete on
> Cairo.
> > > (this will also help GTK and I believe wX ports)
> > > 3. TransferJobWin needs to be rewritten to be more asynchronous and
> support
> > > HTTP and HTTPS. This is all possible via WinInet ( the API currently in
> use
> > > ).
> > > 4. I noticed that XMLHttpRequest isn't working on Windows. This might be
> > > related to point 3.
> > > 5. SVG support. This will probably either require temporarily porting
> > > KCanvas to Cairo for the interim. This isn't as important. (this will
> also
> > > help GTK and I believe wX ports)
> > >
> > I've got a partial port of the SVG support over to cairo.
> > I'll post what I have in a bug when/if needed otherwise I'll post as soon
> as
> > I can draw something. This may be a good project to actually move onto a
> > branch if there is enough intrest.
> >
> > I'm actually working quite a bit on that right now.
> >
> > > This is just stuff I've noticed over the past year. Finally, a native
> WebKit
> > > implementation! Web Designers and Web Surfers rejoice!
> > >
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