[webkit-dev] attach/detach or insertedIntoDocument/removedFromDocument

[Sergiy Byelozyorov]

Noone?

Sergiy


On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Sergiy Byelozyorov <
rryk at graphics.cs.uni-sb.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am implementing XML3D <http://www.xml3d.org/> format into WebKit. I have
> a number of new elements that I have added to a separate namespace. Root
> element is <xml3d> and it's the only one who has a renderer. Every child
> that is attached to the subtree of this element should notify parent element
> about itself and register themselves with this renderer. I need to have a
> function that I can override to perform this initialization. My
> implementation uses third party library for rendering and requires me to
> have a single renderer to render the whole scene, therefore I can't split
> renderer into many subrenderers for each node. Moreover, 3D scenes do not
> follow box model and rendering of single node often requires to interact
> with other elements in the scene (e.g. for ray tracing) thus storing the
> entire scene in the single data-structure is more effective.
>
> To perform the registration with the parent renderer I have tried using
> insertedIntoDocument/removedFromDocument, but they result in overhead when
> I am attaching element to a tree which is not rendered at all (such as
> loaded by Ajax). Then I switched to attach/detach but these are called
> many times, i.e. every node gets attached, detached, attached again etc.
> while loading the document, which still causes the overhead. Is there any
> set of functions that would allow me to know when I am attached to the
> subtree and that tree should be rendered?
>
> Thank you in advance,
> Sergiy
>
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