Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of FiveYearPlan

Timestamp:

Mar 12, 2015 3:04:04 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

bfulgham@webkit.org

Comment:

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FiveYearPlan

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 There are some changes we could make to WebKit source code that would make development easier (and safer).
 * One large benefit would be the the immutable render tree discussed above.
+* Could some complicated high-level code in JavaScript, rather than C++?
 * Renaming
    1. RenderRegions rename to Fragment
@@ -69 +70 @@
    1. Move line layout out of RenderBlock & RenderBlockFlow
    1. ScrollableArea and FrameView
+   1. State of FrameLoader, DocumentLoader, ResourceLoader, ImageLoader, PNGLoader, ThreadSafeCrossOriginLoader, etc. Untenable.
+   1. Relationships between Document Frame, DOM Window, and Page.
+* Reconcile more of our multi-path code to share more code. We lack some abstractions that would allow the very common code to be shared between the two.\
+   1. LineLayout, which has SimpleLineLayout and LineBoxLayout.
+   1. Selection, which has iOS and Mac specialized versions.
 
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