[webkit-dev] Proposal: Remove ENABLE(MATHML)

[Frédéric WANG]

On 23/10/2017 18:25, Adrian Perez de Castro wrote:
> From your description it sounds that what takes more disk space in MathML are
> the needed math fonts, and that the amount of code added to WebKit when built
> is in the order of hundreds of kilobytes, at most (BTW, do you have figures of
> MathML enabld vs. disabled to confirm?). That being the case, it seems fine to
> me that MathML support is always enabled.
>
> Usually my main concern with removing compilation guards is forcing additional
> usage of megabytes of disk and/or memory in embedded platforms (which is, for
> example, the case for ENABLE_VIDEO: for the GTK+ and WPE ports it completely
> avoids the GStreamer dependency, which saves tens of megabytes!). But keeping
> the guards to save just a few hundreds of kilobytes is certainly not worth it,
> and in this case embedders can choose to not ship the math fonts.
>
> TL;DR: Fine by me, as it seems the compile flag only saves a few kilobytes in
> the built binaries, and the math fonts can't be skipped anyway by embedders.
>
> Best regards,
>
>
> --
>  Adrián 🎩

Thanks Adrián. No, I wanted to do it during the Web Engines Hackfest but
did not have time to try. Also, Olivier mentioned he would check the
difference and tell whether it is significant or not for his project,
but I have not heard back from him yet.

-- 
Frédéric Wang - frederic-wang.fr


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