[webkit-dev] The Care and Feeding of WebCore Modules

[Adam Barth]

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
>
> Here's an update of my lists based on the notes from you, Adam and others:
>
> == Existing Modules ==
>
> gamepad
> geolocation
> indexeddb (work in progress)
> intents
> mediastream
> vibration
> websockets
>
>
> == Likely Future Modules ==
>
> filesystem
> notifications
> pagevisibility
> protocolhandler
> websql
> webaudio
>
>
> == Non-Modules Using Module-Related Techniques for Loose Coupling ==
>
> devicemotion
> deviceoritentation
> html (seems to be agreement on reverting this)
> speechinput (seems to be agreement on keeping this)
> svg
> webgl
> workers
> xml
>
> == Possibly Planned Future Uses of Module Techniques for non-Modules ==
>
> events
>
>
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> Assuming this reflects up-to-date plans, I can put it in a wiki page, though I'm not sure I'll always be able to keep it up to date with changes of plans.
>
> I would suggest that, based on the discussion so far, html, svg, webgl, workers, and xml should be de-quasi-modularized at least for now. I would also suggest not applying Module techniques to DOM events, at least for now, unless I misunderstand the intent. devicemotion and deviceorientation seem to be using Supplement<> in a similar way and for a similar reason to speechinput, so I'd presume folks are ok with those.
>
> We may also want to consider whether websockets is truly a good candidate for the module treatment. It seems to me that at some point soon, if not already, it will be mature and accepted enough to be considered part of the core, though the code is relatively standalone.

That sounds like a good plan.

One thing I'd say is that being a module doesn't mean a feature is any
less important as a part of WebKit.  It's just a way to structure the
code.  WebSQL is pretty mature, but that doesn't mean it needs to take
up space in Document.cpp, for example.

Adam