[webkit-help] resource-request-starting and never match

[Benjamin Poulain]

In theory yes, in practice nobody is doing it.

To do anything, the WebKit engine needs to be between two layers:
-Below WebKit, there is a platform layer that does all the platform
interaction (network, IO, threading, rendering, multimedia handling, etc).
-Above WebKit, there is a GUI layer that does all the native UI for the
engine (handling views, windows, dialogs, etc).

On OS X and iOS, WebKit is completely independent from Safari. The
bottom layer is composed by the core frameworks of the system
(CFNetwork, CoreAnimation, CoreGraphics, etc). The upper layer is done
by Cocoa (OS X) or Cocoa Touch (iOS).

On Linux, there is no canonical libraries for either layers. The two
Linux ports of WebKit are GTK and EFL. Each port maintains its platform
layer and UI layer together. EFL and GTK share quite a bit of code on
the platform layer.

The Qt port of WebKit is no more, it was abandoned due to a lack of
resources.

It would be possible to write a Linux port independent of GTL/EFL/Qt
libraries. This even existed at some point (the Nix port). Nobody does
that at the moment.

Benjamin

On 5/24/14, 3:05 PM, Victor Lucero wrote:
> Oh. im sorry. so insted if you allow me to ask something directly in
> relation with webkit.
> 
> can i use the webkit api directly wihtout the need of safari, gtk3 or
> qt?
> 
> I mean. Is the webkitapi is exposed directly in some way so I can use
> it without depending of gtk,qt or any other gui api?
> 
> Best regards. Victor Lucero.
> 
> El 23-05-2014, a las 18:56, Benjamin Poulain <benjamin at webkit.org>
> escribió:
> 
>> Hi Victor,
>> 
>> On 5/23/14, 3:24 PM, Victor Lucero wrote:
>>> Hi. Im used webkit throught 1.8.3 to webkitgtk3-2.2.7
>>> 
>>> and the signal resource-request-starting never match the amount
>>> of resource-resource-load-finished like there are resources that
>>> arent reported as finished.
>>> 
>>> I also attach events to soupsesion to see every request but they
>>> never match, and the diference is very big.
>>> 
>>> just tested a regular site and resource-request-starting reported
>>> 96 elements but of those only 65 reported
>>> resource-resource-load-finished(the elements reported trought the
>>> soupsession almot match the ones reported via
>>> resource-request-starting )
>>> 
>>> I tested a lot of sites and the number are always like this.
>>> 
>>> I also tried to attach events to the soupmessage that comes
>>> trought the signal "resource-request-starting" but i was looking
>>> at the rource and looks like webkitgtk just use it as reference
>>> using "updateFromSoupMessage".
>>> 
>>> can you guideme to a way to know all the elements that finished
>>> loading ?
>> 
>> This is a webkit-gtk question, you will have better luck on the
>> WebKit-GTK mailing list
>> (https://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo/webkit-gtk).
>> 
>> Benjamin
>> 
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