Re: Webkit2 porting

[Robert Schroll <rschroll gmail com>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:53 AM, Adrian Perez de Castro 
<aperez igalia com> wrote:
> I have just gone over the README:
>
>   “messages are passed back to the UI through the title of the 
> WebView”
>
> ...and this, while it works and allows to receive updates from the web
> process to the UI side by connecting to title changes, is certainly
> cringeworthy.

Yeah, it's quite a kludge.  I was considering spinning up a HTTP server 
and making XLMHttpRequests from Javascript to communicate with the UI 
process, but that seemed like a lot of work.

Perhaps a better solution would be to connect to the 
WebView.script_dialog signal and pass information out through that 
channel.  The effect would be the same, but it feels less dirty to me.

Of course,
> As a matter of fact, I have an almost-ready patch to allow to send
> messages from JavaScript (in the web process) to the UI process [1].
> That, along with the recently-added support for script injection [2]
> will make it much easier to solve the inter-process communication for
> a lot of use cases.

This would be great.  If you let me know when this makes it into 
WebKitGTK, I'll update the example to use it.

Thanks,
Robert