[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 47202] Adding C API for dealing with viewport meta info

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47202





--- Comment #21 from Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth at webkit.org>  2010-10-08 11:28:00 PST ---
(In reply to comment #20)
> (In reply to comment #19)
> > Anders and I took a look at this and we are a bit confused about why the client needs to know about the viewport at all. Couldn't WebKit handle this itself (maybe if it was put into a special mode where it knew to handle viewport args)?
> 
> Because it is the client that deals with zooming/scaling etc, so the client will have to enforce the limits. It is also the client that knows when a device was rotated and thus can update the layout (we also wants to do that at the right time because of ui animations etc).

It is also not as simple as just setting the layout size as the client might be using a tiled backing store and thus using the setFixedLayout

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