[webkit-dev] Deprecate webkit_web_page_get_main_frame?

[Alex Christensen]

We definitely have a lot of work to do, but the plan is to make UI process driven replacements for all uses of the injected bundle.  It’s a large problem without a currently completely known solution, but we’re working on it and welcome collaboration from people working on webkit-based browsers on other platforms.  I’m pushing to deprecate things to discourage further adoption of things we are planning to remove, even before we have a complete replacement plan.

> On Jul 22, 2024, at 4:31 AM, Carlos Garcia Campos via webkit-dev <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Alex, 
> 
> sorry for the delay to reply, I was on vacation last week. 
> 
> So, we mainly use the frame object to get its javascript context, so
> what's the plan for that? I mean, it's only the api to get the main
> frame what's going to be deprecated or the frame object entirely? In
> most of the cases we get the frame from the script world on the window-
> object-cleared event, so we can probably deprecate get_main_frame(). I
> think it's only used in epiphany and evolution, but I would need to
> check how it's used there.
> 
> El vie, 12-07-2024 a las 16:19 -0600, Alex Christensen via webkit-dev
> escribió:
>> In https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/30763 I’m deprecating
>> injected bundle frame access interfaces as part of the site isolation
>> development.  Would glib API maintainers be willing to deprecate
>> webkit_web_page_get_main_frame to discourage its adoption and
>> indicate plans to remove it at some point in the future?  I’ve kept
>> the functionality for now because we are still moving off it, but at
>> some point that will be complete and it would be nice to remove
>> bundle frame access together.
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