[webkit-dev] How loading a frame ought to work

George Staikos staikos at kde.org
Thu Oct 15 09:24:22 PDT 2009


On 2009-10-14, at 12:28 AM, Adam Barth wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:00 PM, George Staikos <staikos at kde.org>  
> wrote:
>> Strongly support your suggested refactoring -- on the condition  
>> that you
>> clearly document it on the wiki as you go.   This just gets more  
>> and more
>> complex and I don't think we can risk more refactoring resulting in
>> potentially even fewer people having a very clear idea of what is  
>> happening.
>
> In general, the WebKit project seems to prefer easily understandable
> code to external documentation.  When thing settle down some more,
> I'll certainly add comments explaining what the role of each object
> is.

    I agree.  The problem is that the loader code is anything but  
"easily understandable."  I'm afraid that further changes will only  
result in fewer people understanding it.

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George Staikos
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