[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 104521] [GTK][EFL][WK2] Integrate the GTK+ and EFL web process into one

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104521





--- Comment #1 from Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth at webkit.org>  2012-12-10 01:33:37 PST ---
I don't think that is feasible for various reasons.

1) Little gain, beyond our current code sharing which we should promote
2) We need the ability to made changes and this might hinter it
3) We might rewrite the Curl backend (using the right curl_multi interface) and use that
4) We surely have EFL dependencies in WebCore
5) Different target (I think). It seems like GTK+ wants to make a great traditional desktop browser. We on the other hand, have a clear target of making a great modern mobile browser, which can/does mean sacrificing features currently found in desktop browsers. It is also the reason we do compositing in the UI process as earlier experiments did it on the web process side, but the extra XComposite call killed performance.
6) ... 

I am all for cooperation more, but I think this is an unrealistic goal which doesn't bring us much.

For RenderTheme I think we kind of want to go the Chrome way and not integrate with desktop widgets but instead use some nice looking web like widgets which look great on all plaforms. But we need to consider the sizes on mobile devices or do another theme for mobile browsers. This we could do together.

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