Active Desktop says hello
Active Desktop says hello
Posted Aug 9, 2017 10:40 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)In reply to: Active Desktop says hello by rwmj
Parent article: The coming WebKitGTK+ 2.4 apocalypse
> Also the problems here are entirely caused by WebKit not providing a stable API. If they had thought at all about their downstream consumers, none of this would be happening.
To their credit, they're usually pretty good. However, the problem comes down to the process splits in WebCore forcing some things to now be async and GTK/glib sucking at hiding the difference between sync and async calls. When your "run some JavaScript" code is now across a pipe, you have to go back to the event loop to send and wait for the result. How in the world would you have kept the old API which just returned the result directly in a glib-based world?