[webkit-dev] Blob scheme implementation
Maciej Stachowiak
mjs at apple.com
Wed Sep 15 15:40:29 PDT 2010
On Sep 15, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Adam Barth wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Darin Fisher <darin at chromium.org> wrote:
>> I'm ignoring javascript: URLs because they are super weird... evaluation
>> happens synchronously and can have side effects such as causing other
>> navigations. It does not fit the normal mold of URL loading. Mozilla tries
>> to express javascript: URLs as a protocol handler, and it only adds
>> complexity. The WebKit approach of implementing javascript: URLs as special
>> cases in FrameLoader is superior because it makes the code easier to
>> understand.
>
> Oh man. If our JavaScript URL handling is easier to understand than
> Firefox's, I'd be really scared to see theirs. :)
If you do decide to read it, I promise to visit you regularly at the asylum.
Regards,
Maciej
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