So I got accepted into GSoC again! I’m going to be working on WebKit2. But what is WebKit2, or even WebKit, for that matter? Well, WebPositive uses WebKit to render its web pages. Currently, we use the WebKitLegacy API to communicate with WebKit. It would be nice to switch to the newer version: WebKit2. However, our port of WebKit2 still needs work. At present, it has lost its ability to even render any webpage at all!
This report covers hrev57616 through hrev57679.
This report covers hrev57561 through hrev57615.
This blog post was originally a forum post. It is reproduced here on the website to make it easier to find and reference. I heard that some more people may be interesting in helping with WebKit. So here is a summary of the current state, the things I think need work, or the possible future paths to explore.
Keeping WebKitLegacy up and running The Web moves fast these days. So we have to stay very up to date with upstream WebKit.
This report covers hrev57494 through hrev57560.
This RFC proposes to change the Haiku coding guidelines to change the formatting of variable and member declarations from a Table Class Member Declaration Style, to a Normalized Declaration Style or a Aligned Declaration Style. The arguments are that (1) the current format has severe limitations which limits the aesthetic value of the current formatting, especially when modern C++ language features are used, and (2) it is not a good use of the time of Haiku’s contributors to modify and maintain custom logic in the haiku-format
tool (derived from clang-format
). If the proposal is adopted, any new code contributions will have to use the new formatting style, and contributors are required to reformat any declarations that they modify.
This report covers hrev57429 through hrev57493.
This report covers hrev57364 through hrev57428.
This report covers hrev57309 through hrev57363 (again a bit of a shorter month than average.)
This article lists some of the recent updates for developer tools that are available in the HaikuPorts repository. Many of these can be installed from HaikuDepot.
This is the first article on this topic, but it may become a regular (quarterly?) series. Let me know in the comments what you find of these notes, and what else you think should be covered.