[webkit-dev] WebKit2 C API

Sam Weinig weinig at apple.com
Tue Jul 26 16:25:59 PDT 2011


Hi Carlos,

Unfortunately, there is not much to report here. We have not made any decisions on whether we are going to migrate to a C++ API.  If you are implementing a layer on top of the C API, that should continue to work for the foreseeable future. 

-Sam

On Jul 14, 2011, at 12:10 AM, Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:

> In the contributors meeting notes about WebKit2[1] I've read that the C
> API might have been a bad idea, and I've heard that there are plans to
> remove, or replace it by a C++ API. What are the plans for the C API?
> 
> In the GTK+ port we are using the C API to implement the MiniBrowser
> and we are planning to provide a high level GTK+ API on top of the C
> one (without exposing it), so can we rely on the C API to implement our
> GTK+ one?
> 
> [1] http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/April 2011 Meeting/WebKit2
> 
> Thanks, 
> -- 
> Carlos Garcia Campos
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