[webkit-dev] how tightly coupled is JavaScriptCore to WebKit?

[Brett Cannon]

I want <script> tags and event handlers.  =)  I am fine with getting into
the guts since I would have to as well for WebCore.  I am just wondering how
deep I would have to go.

-Brett

On 7/31/06, David Hyatt <hyatt at apple.com> wrote:
>
> It depends on the level of integration that you want.  If you want to
> support <script> elements and event handlers, then you will have to
> get into WebCore.
>
> dave
>
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 5:32 PM, Geoffrey Garen wrote:
>
> > Brett,
> >
> > While the WebKit framework requires the JavaScriptCore framework to
> > build, WebKit is not tied to JavaScript as language in any
> > particularly strong way. I don't think it would be too difficult to
> > make a Python-enabled prototype by adding new hooks inside the engine.
> >
> > That said, I seem to remember that a contributor already added
> > Python support to DumpRenderTree, our test harness for WebKit,
> > using PyObjC. WebKit's ObjC bindings make this kind of addition
> > pretty painless. I think you'll find this approach far easier than
> > hacking inside any browser engine, since it allows you to avoid the
> > engine guts entirely, and use only public, documented API.
> >
> > Cheers.
> >
> > Geoff
> >
> > On Jul 31, 2006, at 4:54 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> >
> >> My name is Brett Cannon and I am currently a Ph.D. student
> >> attending the University of British Columbia.  I am starting work
> >> on a dissertation that involves making the Python programming
> >> language secure and using the use of Python as a client-side web
> >> scripting language as the case-study.  I was originally planning
> >> on using Firefox as the browser to embed into, but then I
> >> remembered that WebKit was an option for me.
> >>
> >> But I have no clue how difficult it would be to add another client-
> >> side scripting language to WebKit.  Does anyone know how difficult
> >> this would be?  Is most stuff so completely geared towards
> >> JavaScript that adding another language would be a huge
> >> undertaking?  Or is the abstraction at the right level that this
> >> would be feasible with a modest amount of work?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help.
> >>
> >> -Brett C.
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