[webkit-dev] Proposal: upstream the WPE port

[Michael Catanzaro]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Carlos Garcia Campos 
<carlosgc at webkit.org> wrote:
> The easiest way would be to reuse the GTK+ API. WPE has the same
> dependencies than the GTK+ port except for GTK+ itself. The GTK+ API 
> of
> course depend on GTK+, but only for the WebView, and a few other
> fallback implementations like the file chooser, color chooser,
> printing, etc, that are, in any case, optional. So, we could move 95%
> of the GTK+ API to a common glib dir and reuse all that in WPE, only
> adding a WebView implementation for WPE.

I'm sure reimplementing WebKitWebView without GTK+ will be a lot of 
work, and I'm pretty sure it's a lot more than 5% of the current API. 
But I like this plan. It will result in a dramatically better API for 
WPE than what we have now. The cross-platform C API is not very good. 
Our GObject-based GTK+ API is. Why didn't we consider this before? :)

Michael