[webkit-dev] Webkit Design and MVC design pattern

[Darin Adler]

On Mar 16, 2009, at 1:21 PM, Meryl Silverburgh wrote:

> Does Webkit follow MVC design pattern?

Roughly. But it’s not really practical to follow the MVC pattern for a  
web engine.

For example the DOM standards and de facto standards from other  
browsers put quite a bit of view/controller machinery into the DOM,  
even though it should theoretically be model-only.

> If DOM is the Model, and Render Tree is the View, what is the  
> 'controller' in MVC?

Again roughly speaking, it’s objects like Frame, whereas FrameView and  
the render tree are part of the view and Document and the DOM tree  
part of the model.

     -- Darin