[webkit-gtk] hovering-over-link signal and HitTestResult in WebKit2 API

[Martin Robinson]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Carlos Garcia Campos
<cgarcia at igalia.com> wrote:
> That also made me think about how to expose HitTestResult in the API. In
> WebKit1 it's only used by webkit_web_view_get_hit_test_result() (it
> sounds like a getter, but it actually performs a hit test and returns
> the result). In WK2 there's no API to make a hit test from the UI
> process, and I'm not sure it's actually needed. However, I think a
> HitTestResult object can be useful in the API, probably with a different
> name WebKitWebElement or something like that. This could be passed as an
> argument to the WebKitWebView::hovering-over-element signal, and it
> could be used for the context menu API.

I think this is a good idea, but we should use a name that reflects
the fact that it's not an actual DOM object. For instance
HitTestResult or CursorTargetInformation or something like that.

> We could use a similar approach than WK1 HitTestResult object, it has
> flags to get information about the hoevered thing (whether it's a link,
> or image, or text selected, whether the area is editable, etc.) and the
> uri or the image, link or media. It also has the inner node, we can add
> later once we have DOM bindings in WK2.

I don't think we should count on being able to do DOM bindings in the
UI process yet.  It's a pretty big unsolved problem and it may be
easier in the end to do them in the WebProcess.

--Martin