I don't mean to spam this list with design questions, but I'm trying to wrap my mind around how the loader is put together today and how we'd like it to be put together in the future.
There's a FIXME in ResourceHandle that says that ResourceHandle shouldn't depend on Frame. (For those who aren't familiar with the loader, ResourceHandle is the primary platform abstraction WebCore uses to communicate with the network.) This makes sense to me for two reasons: 1) ResourceHandle is in WebCore/platform/network and therefore isn't allowed to depend on parts of WebCore outside the platform directory. 2) There are a number of types of network requests that are not associated with frames (e.g., XMLHttpRequests from WebWorkers, PingLoader, etc). Do we still believe this FIXME is accurate? If so, I have some time next week to look at removing the dependency. There's a patch that either recently landed or is about to land that furthers the use of Frame by ResourceHandle, so I wanted to check with folks more broadly about whether this is the right direction. (Note that I haven't studied the code yet, so I'm not sure what would be required to remove the dependency.) Adam _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
