[webkit-dev] Announcing WebKit2

[Chris Fleizach]

Great. 

I think Google chrome has taken a similar approach and have had trouble making accessibility work because of the inter-process separation, so when we come up with a solution, maybe they can adopt as well.

On Apr 8, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> 
> On Apr 8, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Chris Fleizach wrote:
> 
>> If its in a separate process, does Accessibility still work as expected?
> 
> It does not yet work in this rough initial version, but it's certainly our intent to make it work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Maciej
> 
>> 
>> On Apr 8, 2010, at 4:01 PM, Anders Carlsson wrote:
>> 
>>> Hello everyone,
>>> 
>>> This is a heads-up that we will shortly start landing patches for a new WebKit framework that we at Apple have been working on for a while. We currently call this new framework "WebKit2".
>>> 
>>> WebKit2 is designed from the ground up to support a split process model, where the web content (JavaScript, HTML, layout, etc) lives in a separate process. This model is similar to what Google Chrome offers, with the major difference being that we have built the process split model directly into the framework, allowing other clients to use it.
>>> 
>>> Some high-level documentation is available at http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2
>>> 
>>> Currently WebKit2 is available for Mac and Windows, and we would gladly accept patches to add more ports.
>>> 
>>> We're more than happy to answer any questions you might have, and we hope that this will be a topic of discussion at the WebKit Contributors Meeting.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Anders Carlsson and Sam Weinig.
>>> 
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