[webkit-dev] A proposal for "Platform Mechanisms"

Kenneth Christiansen kenneth.christiansen at openbossa.org
Wed Jun 16 17:58:39 PDT 2010


Isn't the idea here that Mechanisms are for global clients, where as
the current clients are not?

Kenneth

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Darin Adler <darin at apple.com> wrote:
> Sounds reasonable to me. We already follow pointers and use virtual functions for all these things, so I don’t see them adding a lot of overhead.
>
> Would these Mechanism classes replace all the current Client classes? Would the mechanism objects be obtained once and cached globally? How is the initial PlatformMechanism object created?
>
>    -- Darin
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