[webkit-gtk] Webkit GTK Release 2 - basically unusable for us

[Niranjan Rao]

Greetings,

I certainly hope that I am wrong with my dramatic subject line, but this 
is the feeling I am getting right now. Its not my intention to start a 
flame war as I have great respect for amount work webkit gtk team puts 
in. However these are (possibly incorrect) observations I have for the 
current release. Most importantly I am looking for help/guidance to move 
to release 2.

I downloaded the release from the webkitgtk.org and build it without any 
major problems. Initial simple test revealed that performance was very 
good - much faster than version 1.* for my simple tests. However story 
got much complicated once I started digging deeper.

For the work we do, we need to have complete access to DOM and frames. 
Its not clear how to do that - e.g. if I need to change contents of 
elements, add/remove elements, I could do that in earlier release by 
accessing dom document from required frame. Now concept of frames seem 
to have disappeared.

It seems like release 2 is completely designed to discourage dom access  
and one goal in mind - just to be browser component. You point the url, 
and it will do all the work behind the scenes.

Don't most of major projects such gtk projects mark methods as 
deprecated and allow users to move on before actually removing the 
methods? Code written with version 1 is not compilable with version 2 as 
many of the methods or classes don't exist and there is no clear 
migration path defined.

Please tell me I am wrong, I can still access frames/dom in release 2.

Regards,

Niranjan