[webkit-dev] Should we move methods from layoutTestController/etc... to internals?

Ryosuke Niwa rniwa at webkit.org
Tue Feb 21 15:39:18 PST 2012


On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
>
>  On Feb 21, 2012, at 1:21 PM, Ryosuke Niwa wrote:
>
> > I'd prefer getting rid of the entire interface when possible. We're
> obviously removing layoutTestController, textInputController, etc... at the
> moment though.
>
> I think it's helpful to organize the methods by functional area instead of
> dumping them all onto one giant interface. layoutTestController for example
> has far too many methods, in my opinion. We would not design a public API
> where every method is on one global interface, and our testing API should
> not look that way either. I would like to see our test API split up more,
> rather than combined into a single interface.
>

Yeah, that'll be nice. Maybe morrita and dglazkov have an idea on how to do
this nicely?

I'm also confused about your examples of interfaces you are "obviously"
> removing. Did you mean "obviously not removing"?


Sorry. Yes, it should read "obviously NOT removing".

- Ryosuke
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