[webkit-dev] Announcing WebKit2

[Darin Adler]

On Apr 8, 2010, at 5:47 PM, Xan Lopez wrote:

> - In the wiki you mention that one goal of the new framework is to provide a stable C-based API. Is this meant as a public API for WebKit, the same in all platforms (like JSC), or a stable internal API for embedders to use in order to implement their native APIs on top? From some lines in the wiki (like WKView wrapping native objects) it seems like you want to do the former, but that seems like quite a massive effort and the loss of an important selling port of the various WebKit ports.

As I understand it, the goal is to have a C API that is suitable and works well cross platform for all the many platform independent operations; it is indeed analogous the one for JavaScriptCore in that respect.

When you refer to a “selling point” of WebKit ports, I assume you are referring to how those ports integrate with the surrounding OS and frameworks. For example, the Mac OS X port provides an Objective-C API that fits in well with the rest of Cocoa. The goal would be that such API can be cleanly built on top of the C-based API and should offer a simple way to “drop down” to the platform independent C one and vice versa.

    -- Darin