[webkit-gtk] WebKit2 GTK+ API

[Xan]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Benjamin Otte <otte at gnome.org> wrote:
> This whole notion of async API is really ugly, I'd try very hard to
> avoid it at all costs. In fact, it's so bad that people do sync IO
> everywhere and pray nobody notices. (Try looking at the GTK icon theme
> code or the CSS theme loading or basically anything else inside GTK.
> Or try looking at lots of DBUS-using code that calls functions with
> return values. In particular AT-SPI...)

Drive-by clarification:

keep in mind a lot of the API has to be asynchronous because of the
process separation architecture in WebKit2. So even if a lot of the
WebKit1 API might be easier to use depending on the specific case it
might not be possible to replicate.

Xan

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