[webkit-dev] Changing the implementation of KURL

[Brett Wilson]

On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Joe Mason <jmason at rim.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: webkit-dev-bounces at lists.webkit.org [mailto:webkit-dev-
>> bounces at lists.webkit.org] On Behalf Of Maciej Stachowiak
>> Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2012 7:08 PM
>> To: Brett Wilson
>> Cc: Benjamin Poulain; WebKit Development
>> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Changing the implementation of KURL
>>
>> Let's take some specific examples. Would using WTF::Vector inside the
>> implementation (not necessarily at the API boundary, just internally)
>> be acceptable? Or would it be required to use C arrays or std::vector?
>> Would using WTF's ASSERT family of macros be acceptable, or should some
>> other form of asserts be used? The are examples I can think of where
>> "dependencies" could simply be added in the course of trying to get the
>> code to be in WebKit style.
>
> Another big potential dependency would be use of Platform.h and the ENABLE/USE/etc system of macros - I could easily see a new feature including special processing for a new URL scheme, similar to the way file: url's have slightly different parsing rules than http: urls.  In this case we'd want to wrap the special handling in ENABLE(feature).  (Arguably the url class should be flexible enough that you don't have to hardcode special handling for a scheme, though.)

I don't see that as being much of an issue. Google Safe Browsing can
always write their own Platform.h that does what they need.

Brett