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| <h2>Portability</h2> |
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| <h3>Overview</h3> |
| <p>Welcome to the portability project page. |
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| In addition to making our code more portable, we are also interested in hosting ports of WebKit to other platforms. |
| For example, WebCore has already been <a href="http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/">ported to GTK+</a> and we are interested in hosting this port |
| in our repository. |
| We are also interested in ports of WebKit to other platforms like Windows. This project is concerned with how to do the code refactoring necessary to improve |
| portability, thus making life easier for those doing ports, as well as with the ports themselves. |
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| <h3>Get Involved!</h3> |
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| <dt>Move WebKit code into WebCore</dt> |
| <dd>Over time the WebKit framework has grown to contain a lot of code written in Objective-C that has no real business being in this framework. Now that both |
| frameworks are open source, we would like to move as much of this code as possible from WebKit into WebCore. This means rewriting the code to be C++ instead of |
| Objective-C to make the code more portable. Ultimately we would like WebKit to be nothing more than the embedding APIs for a given platform and infrastructure/glue |
| code that is needed to tie into a specific platform. All of the remaining logic should move to WebCore. |
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| <dt>Implement missing components</dt> |
| <dd>Not all platforms have code for handling cookies, authentication, SSL, caching, network loading, or image decoding. We would be interested in implementations |
| of these capabilities that could optionally be used on platforms that do not have this support. On platforms that do, the implementation of the cross-platform |
| abstraction could call into the system. One possibility for obtaining this missing functionality is to port Mozilla's image rendering and networking libraries |
| to Qt (eliminating the XPCOM and converting the use of strings, etc. to QString). |
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| <dt>Integrate the GTK+ port</dt> |
| <dd>One port of WebCore already exists, the GTK+ port. We are interested in integrating this into our source tree, and believe that doing so will help us to |
| refactor our code to make future ports easier. |
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| <dt>Help Porting!</dt> |
| <dd>Want to help with porting to Windows or some other platform? <a href="../../contact.html">Contact us</a> and start submitting patches! |
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