[webkit-qt] WebKit2 and QtWebKit

[Kenneth Christiansen]

I'm all for it, and both me and Luiz have a lot of interest in
participating in this work. We have also already studied it in deep
detail during our evening work hours.

Cheers,
Kenneth

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Simon Hausmann
<simon.hausmann at nokia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> after the WebKit contributor's conference we've had a couple of really good
> discussions about WebKit2 and the Qt port. We concluded - among many options -
> that the best way forward would be try to make the single-threaded QtWebKit
> that we currently have work better first. So we would continue down that road
> for a while more and once the single-threaded version flies, then it would make
> sense to join the WebKit2 project. There are fruits left in the performance
> tree, especially in the text branch :-)
>
> For the actual work on porting Qt to WebKit2 I think we should explore the
> idea of a new API, based on the same version of WebCore. Perhaps we'd simply
> end up with still one QtWebKit DLL, but more classes in the public API :)
>
> I propose that we try to get funding for a one week workshop with 5-10
> developers. The goal would be to spend the week to get a Qt based WebKit2 up
> and running in the trunk. I think the work would consist of cleaning up our
> layer violations and implementing a basic API/wrapper on the WebKit2 side.
>
> I heard the Szeged hackers suggested to have that workshop in their university
> in Hungary, which I think is a great idea.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> Simon
>
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Kenneth Rohde Christiansen
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