[webkit-dev] Adding ENABLE_FLEXBOX to WebCore

[Darin Fisher]

Is it possible for this feature to be enabled at runtime?
On Jun 8, 2011 11:38 AM, "Adam Barth" <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
> New features should be tested incrementally as they are developed.
> That means running them on build.webkit.org. The decision to ship a
> feature is separate.
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
>> I don't think we want to ship this until we have a reasonably feature
>> complete implementation of the spec and that we're convinced the spec is
>> stable. I expect that in implementing this we'll find areas of the spec
that
>> need reworking, but at this point it's mainly blocked on implementation
>> experience.
>> I'm not sure it's worth setting a bot up just for this, although I'm not
>> opposed to it. I expect we should have this shippable within a couple
>> months.
>>
>> Ojan
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Adam Barth <abarth at webkit.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Can't we just define ENABLE_FLEXBOX on one or more of the commonly
>>> used ports and use the regular bots?
>>>
>>> Adam
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Tony Chang <tony at chromium.org> wrote:
>>> > Hi webkit-dev,
>>> > I wanted to let you know that Ojan and I plan to add flexbox layout
>>> > support
>>> > to WebCore.  WebCore already supports an older flexbox implementation
>>> > (display: box), but the new spec is designed to be easier for
developers
>>> > to
>>> > understand and more powerful.  The old flexbox will still remain in
>>> > WebCore
>>> > since none of the CSS properties overlap with the new flexbox spec.
 The
>>> > spec can be found
>>> >
>>> > at: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/ (
http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-flexbox/)
>>> > This support will be behind the ENABLE_FLEXBOX feature define
>>> > (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62049) and there is a meta
bug
>>> > tracking the feature's development
>>> > (https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62048).  I expect this
feature
>>> > to
>>> > eventually be enabled by all ports.
>>> > I am ready to setup a buildbot for tracking the compile and flexbox
>>> > related
>>> > layout tests.  Should I go ahead and get this added to
>>> > build.webkit.org's
>>> > waterfall?
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > Tony
>>> >
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