[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 16401] [GTK] GObject/C DOM binding

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16401





------- Comment #188 from lkcl at lkcl.net  2009-04-22 02:39 PDT -------
> At this point I'm a bit perplexed as to what it will take to get this patch
> accepted. 

likewise.  it's been nearly eight months since it was created.

as a result of a lack of initiative from apple, i'm abandoning webkit in favour
of gecko, having worked out that python-hulahop provides the missing link
between gecko's DOM and python, in exactly the same way that [modified]
pywebkitgtk provides python access to a DOM model.

the advantages of using gecko is as follows:

1) it's fully de-facto standards-compliant.

there has been active hostility towards making webkit language bindings
fully de-facto standards compliance, with total and pathological silence
as the answer when strong evidence is presented that webkit is the only web
engine that fails to comply with modern de-facto standards.

2) it's a mature product

gecko DOM interface bindings have been available for well over three years.
despite the fact that there is so little documentation on it, and they're
as obtuse as hell and so only a mother could love them, the gecko DOM
interface language-independent bindings _do_ actually work, and finally
the OLPC sugar team worked out how to use them (in python), and created
python-hulahop


overall, then, the possibilities for webkit are terminated by apple's
intransigence and deliberate hostility towards de-facto standards
compliance and support for the features that this patch provides.

anyone reading this is advised think twice before using webkit until
such time as apple get their act together.

for example - to the gnome developers reading this: you made the right
decision to pull webkit from epiphany and use gecko.


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