[webkit-dev] help with porting

[Mike Emmel]

Luka I don't think it makes a difference if your running a lot of
thumbnails you would want to use gpu's some sort of render
farm arrangement.  My port does it as a result of the design not
because of a strong desire to render with the cpu.
Also for real world web pages your going to have problems with plugins
which depend on X11 and native widget libraries.

So although its possible with my port I can't see a single real
problem that can be solved with this approach.
Gtk/DirectFB will work for most pages if you have a flash port. Thats
the number one stumbling block.
I did my headless version of DirectFB for example to use the DirectFB
video provider for the media tags.
You can take other approaches but you would need to consider at a
minimum flash and the media tags.
For complete font support your going to have to use pango or go with
the QT port but the QT port gets you back
to the plugin issues if you don't use X11 and a lot of plugins use GTK so....


As far as releasing I'm not in control of the release cycle except for
creating delays as I work on stuff :(
It should be released however some time this year.

I obviously don't disagree with your idea in fact I worked hard to
ensure my approach was adaptable so it could be used for these types
of use cases so someday we will have what your looking for if things
go well. I actually designed it to work
with all the legacy use cases I mentioned but be flexible enough to
transparently drop them when replacements without the legacy X11/Gtk
dependencies become available. So soon a framework will be available
to allow you to reverse software
bloat but I've got no idea if software developers will accept it. I
built it to deal with the problems that occur with our new embedded
devices that have capabilities rivaling desktops where bloat is a huge
problem. The fact it can do what your asking makes me confident the
design is correct in fact it solves problems your not considering.












On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Luka Napotnik <luka.napotnik at gmail.com> wrote:
> Wow really? Could you share the port please. I've been looking for such
> a port to save the cairo painting to a PNG image.
>
> Greets,
> Luka
>
> Dne 22.05.2008 (čet) ob 07:41 -0700 je Mike Emmel zapisal(a):
>> I actually have a WebKit port with no dependencies but Cairo.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 7:02 AM, Luka Napotnik <luka.napotnik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello Mike.
>> >
>> > What I need is a WebKit port that is independent of any display server
>> > (X or a framebuffer). I only want to render the page to an image. And
>> > since cairo is a great graphics library I think It's a good start.
>> >
>> > Greets,
>> > Luka
>> >
>> > Dne 22.05.2008 (čet) ob 06:49 -0700 je Mike Emmel zapisal(a):
>> >> Use the GTK DirectFB backend.
>> >>
>> >> I have a memory only system that I really need to get into the trunk.
>> >> But if you have a graphics card in the system the fb0 will work.
>> >>
>> >> Its on my TODO to get the mem only system checked in and I can give
>> >> you a patch in the mean time if its a issue. Also you can use the vnc driver
>> >> as a virtual framebuffer.
>> >>
>> >> Also some of the XServers should work in a similar way so you can probably
>> >> play the same trick with the right X11 server.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:21 AM, Luka Napotnik <luka.napotnik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Hello.
>> >> >
>> >> > I am interested in porting webkit to cairo for off-screen rendering
>> >> > without a X server. As I cannot find any documents about porting to
>> >> > other platform I would really appreciate if you could help me with some
>> >> > hints about porting webkit.
>> >> >
>> >> > Greets,
>> >> > Luka
>> >> >
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